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The Silver Searcher

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ripgrep Full replacement

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

Respects .gitignore like ag, usually faster on large trees.

Language: Rust
Licence: Unlicense
Stars: 69k
Latest: 15.2.0 ✓ signed
Last push: 2026-08-04

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A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

CCode searchApache-2.0

Stars: 27k
Forks: 1.4k
Latest: 2.2.0
Last push: 2024-06-16

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