BurntSushi/ripgrep

Health v2 · maintenance only

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67619 stars · 2743 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

ripgrep is a fast, line-oriented command-line search tool that recursively searches directories for regex patterns. It respects gitignore rules by default and automatically skips hidden and binary files.

Use cases

• search for a regex pattern across a codebase
• find text in files while respecting gitignore rules
• grep replacement that skips binary and hidden files
• quickly locate function definitions in a large repository
• search the linux kernel source tree for a pattern
• filter log files for matching lines from the terminal

When to choose

• you need a fast grep alternative for searching code repositories
• you want automatic gitignore and hidden-file filtering
• you need first-class cross-platform support including Windows
• you search very large codebases and care about speed

When to avoid

• you need to search inside binary file formats like pdf or docx
• you require a GUI-based search interface
• you need semantic or fuzzy code search rather than regex matching

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

search-engine cli developer-tools developer-tools files windows cli rust cross-platform grep regex gitignore text-search code-search command-line linux macos

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