rg

Ripgrep is a recursive line-oriented CLI search tool.

Aims to be a faster alternative to `grep`.

• Recursively search the current directory for a regular expression:

rg {regular_expression}

• Search for regular expressions recursively in the current directory, including hidden files and files listed in `.gitignore`:

rg --no-ignore --hidden {regular_expression}

• Search for a regular expression only in a certain filetype (e.g. HTML, CSS, etc.):

rg --type {filetype} {regular_expression}

• Search for a regular expression only in a subset of directories:

rg {regular_expression} {set_of_subdirs}

• Search for a regular expression in files matching a glob (e.g. `README.*`):

rg {regular_expression} --glob {glob}

• Only list matched files (useful when piping to other commands):

rg --files-with-matches {regular_expression}

• Show lines that do not match the given regular expression:

rg --invert-match {regular_expression}

• Search a literal string pattern:

rg --fixed-strings -- {string}

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