ripgrep is a fast, powerful cross-platform grep

Once you’re used to the power of grep, regular Windows text-searching tools can seem a little, well, basic. Fortunately there some quality alternatives around, and ripgrep is an excellent open-source project with builds available for Windows, Linux and OS X. As you’d expect, the program arrives as a single executable with no installations or awkward dependencies. Just unzip and place it somewhere on your path. Basic usage starts very simply. rg text_to_find This tells ripgrep to recursively search files in the current directory, ignoring binary or hidden files, displaying the names of any files containing the specified text, with several… [Continue Reading]