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

wolandark 10 hours ago|

and incompatible with grep syntax, which makes it useless to most system admins

tmp10423288442 4 hours ago||

Any sysadmin worth their salt turns on extended regular expressions (with `-E` or `egrep`), which Ripgrep's regex syntax is a superset of, more or less.

xpe 8 hours ago||

> and incompatible with grep syntax, which makes it useless to most system admins

I wonder how much the above reflects a dated and/or stereotyped view? Who here works with "sysadmins"? I mean... devops-all-the-places now, right? :P Share your experiences?: I'm curious.

If I were a sysadmin, I'd have some kind of "sanity check" script if I had to manage a fleet of disparate systems. I'd use it automatically when I logon to a system. Checking things like: Linux vs BSD, what tools are installed, load, any weirdnesses, etc. Heck, maybe even create aliases that abstract over all of it, as much as possible. Maybe copy over a helix binary for editing too, if that was kosher.

chriswep 13 hours ago||

It seems to me that `rg` is the number one most important part that enables LLMs to be smart agents in a codebase. Who would have thought that a code search tool would enable AGI?

npn 10 hours ago|

Faster is not always the best thing. I still remember when vs code changed to ripgrep I had to change my habit using it, before then I can just open vs code to any folder and do something with it, even if the folder contains millions of small text files. It worked fine before, but then rg was picked, and it happily used all of my cpu cores scanning files, made me unable to do anything for awhile.

To be honest I hate all the new rust replacement tools, they introduce new behavior just for the sake of it, it's annoying.