ripgrep Recursive Regex Search Tool

ripgrep (rg) is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches directories for regex patterns while respecting .gitignore rules. Written in Rust, it outperforms grep, ag, and ack on large codebases by significant margins and supports Unicode by default.

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ripgrep Recursive Regex Search Tool

ripgrep (rg) is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches directories for regex patterns while respecting .gitignore rules. Written in Rust, it outperforms grep, ag, and ack on large codebases by significant margins and supports Unicode by default.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

  • For example, rg -tpy foo limits your search to Python files and rg -Tjs

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

Source

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Frequently asked questions

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