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> I don't know ag and it's not a package in Debian. You're in for a treat then: the package name is "silversearcher-ag". Next time you want to grep a director

by yoo1I 10y ago

> I don't know ag and it's not a package in Debian. You're in for a treat then: the package name is "silversearcher-ag". Next time you want to grep a directory of files: instead of grepping it, pause, remember this comment, install it and then do "ag <searchterm>" instead. It's quite a bit faster. Well, lots faster.

softawre 10y ago
faster still: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
- e12e 10y ago
  Interesting. This probably the first utility in Rust I'm aware of that looks like it might belong on a production system (other than "cargo" and other rather excellent rust tooling). Nice way to show off rusts regular expression engine too.
- luibelgo 10y ago
  Golang flavour https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
- deleted 10y ago
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lucb1e 10y ago
Thanks! I installed it a and aliased grep to 'echo Try ag'.
- hulahoof 10y ago
  May as well alias grep to ag XD
  - lucb1e 10y ago
    Thought of that, but a quick glance over ag's man page shows there are options that I commonly use with grep that work differently with ag. I don't want to mess something up so I'd rather just show myself a reminder.