Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if “runk” was real, which I assume not.
But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.
The modern man uses
ripgrep👍But it’s three more letters. No deal.
Its going installed binary is
rg.I shall begrudgingly consider it then, with much begrudgement.
You joke but this is facts
Alias. To
gr, even!What does that offer offer grep/egrep
much faster
proper unicode (and other encodings) support
automatic recursion (no extra flags needed)
can search inside compressed files/archives like gz/xz/zip (also see ripgrep-all) for even more archive support)
honors
.gitignoreand ignores binary/hidden filesprobably a lot more things too
Speed and memory efficiency, mostly. If you ever have to grep for something in a large number of files ripgrep will be done while regular grep will only be reaching the 25% mark.