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Grep is already pretty much instant so what does it matter?


I love grep, but ripgrep really improves on it.

Very often, I don't want to look for files that aren't tracked under Git VC, and I'm not looking for matches in binary files, so by default, ripgrep does that, which can cut time by 99%. I used to grep in small dirs, now I can I can ripgrep in my whole home, not that I do it, but I can. That + Sourcegraph on master branch, and it makes searching for any other thing than plain text feel sooo slow (Atlassian Confluence and Jira, Google docs, etc.).

Thank you so much Burntsushi and contributors!


did you try it on big dataset? there is a huge difference actually




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