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ripgrep: Fast Regex Search for Directories
Ripgrep (rg) is a fast, line-oriented search tool that recursively searches directories for regex patterns while respecting gitignore rules and skipping hidden/binary files. The documentation includes detailed performance benchmarks comparing ripgrep against tools like GNU grep, The Silver Searcher, ack, and ugrep across various search scenarios on the Linux kernel source and large files.
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Summary
Ripgrep (rg) is a fast, line-oriented search tool that recursively searches directories for regex patterns while respecting gitignore rules and skipping hidden/binary files. The documentation includes detailed performance benchmarks comparing ripgrep against tools like GNU grep, The Silver Searcher, ack, and ugrep across various search scenarios on the Linux kernel source and large files.
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ripgrep · search-tool · regex · benchmarking · command-line · grep · performance
Key entities
ripgrep (technology, 0.99) · GNU grep (technology, 0.95) · The Silver Searcher (technology, 0.9) · ack (technology, 0.85) · ugrep (technology, 0.9) · hypergrep (technology, 0.8) · git grep (technology, 0.85) · Linux (technology, 0.8) · regex (concept, 0.9) · Intel i9-12900K (technology, 0.75)
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reference · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 2 Jul 2026