ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
Respects .gitignore like ag, usually faster on large trees.
alternative to ack
The Silver Searcher
2 tools replace The Silver Searcher
🔍 ugrep 7.8 file pattern searcher -- a user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more
Recursive search with grep-compatible options, plus a text UI and fuzzy matching.
- Language
- C++
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
- Stars
- 3.3k
- Latest
- v7.8.5
- Last push
- 2026-11-09
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- ackSame recursive code search with .gitignore handling, noticeably faster.Full replacement