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ripgrep

Extremely fast file search that respects .gitignore.

CLIOpen source

Regular expression search tool for directories, much faster than grep, which by default skips files in .gitignore.

When to use

To search for text in large codebases in the terminal.

When to avoid

If you need POSIX grep-specific features in highly portable scripts.

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