Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

Post by burntsushi » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 2:14 PM UTC

thechao wrote: post #79

burntsushi wrote: post #26

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Author of ripgrep here. Yes, qgrep uses indexing, which will always give it a leg up over other tools that don't use indexing. But of course, now you need to setup and maintain an index. The UX isn't quite as simple as "just run a search." But there isn't much of a mystery here. Someone might neglect to use qgrep for exactly the same reason that "grep is fast enough for me" might prevent someone from using ripgrep. A…

Does `build.rs` build the project? One of my favorite (Big Corp) code-bases just had a single C file (build.c) that did all the dependency tracking, like, Make, but in some nicely written (easy to understand) C code. The C file started with a shebang: a self-building-and-executing line, so we'd do this: ``` ./build.c ``` ... and then magic happened.

Post by wruza » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 2:16 PM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #37

bluedays wrote: post #25

I can't think of a single time I've used grep where I thought "I wish this was faster".

Even if the answer is instant, you have a 50% performance improvement in your search just from typing "rg" instead of "grep"! From my perspective it's a no brainer. I don't HAVE a grep (because I don't have a Unix) so when I install a grep, any grep, reaching for rg is natural. It's modern and maintained. I have no scripts anywhere that might expect grep to be called "grep". Of course if you already have a grep (e.g.…

Post by zero_k » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 2:18 PM UTC

imakira wrote: post #62

stinos wrote: post #3

It's fast indeed. And I can't help keeping promoting the combination with fzf :) For those who want to try it out, this is a Powershell function but the same principle applies in any shell. Does ripgrep then puts fuzzy searching in the resulting files+text on top while showing context in bat: function frg { $result = rg --ignore-case --color=always --line-number --no-heading @Args | fzf --ansi ` --color 'hl:-1:underl…

I wrote a bash version of this: function frg { result=`rg --ignore-case --color=always --line-number --no-heading "$@" | fzf --ansi \ --color 'hl:-1:underline,hl+:-1:underline:reverse' \ --delimiter ':' \ --preview "bat --color=always {1} --theme='Solarized (light)' --highlight-line {2}" \ --preview-window 'up,60%,border-bottom,+{2}+3/3,~3'` file="${result%%:*}" linenumber=`echo "${result}" | cut -d: -f2` if [ ! -z "…

Post by shoover » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 2:24 PM UTC

fhlu wrote: post #74

shoover wrote: post #67

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Oh. Thanks for the tip. This might make me finally embrace powershell. I’ve been using WSL+zsh+fzf as a Windows CLI for continuity with day job Mac tools, but git CLI performance is only usable inside the WSL file system.

You can also add a small script to your WSL under `/usr/local/bin/git`: GIT_WINDOWS="/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/bin/git.exe" GIT_LINUX="/usr/bin/git" case "$(pwd -P)" in /mnt/?/*) case "$@" in # Needed to fix prompt, but it breaks things like paging, colours, etc rev-parse*) # running linux git for rev-parse seems faster, even without translating paths exec "$GIT_LINUX" "$@" ;; *) exec "$GIT_WINDOWS" -c color.ui=always…

Post by mrweasel » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 2:28 PM UTC

abnry wrote: post #73

I messed up my conda environments once when I changed my username. So many references to the old username in the conda folders. Ripgrep saved the day!