Questions tagged [ripgrep]
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore rules. Also: rg
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using ripgrep with regex including literal dollar symbol
Suppose I have a script containing something like
VAR=${VAR1%.*}
I'm looking for a command along the lines of
rg "${.*%"
to find it, but I can't get anywhere near.
all of these fail
rg &...
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to search for files with 2 (full or partial) keywords content (txt files) in a folder and sub folder and files with specific filename
I just want to share this, and hoping will get more similar tool.
I got a directory of text files.. i need to search for the files with 2 (partial) words in it.. the keywords are in random order, but ...
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List files where searched term occurs more than a Threshold
I have a command like
rga --files-with-matches --count-matches --sort path -i -e "use cases?" -e "user stor(y|ies)" -e "Technical debt" -e "Code Quality" -e &...
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How can I search only git tracked files with a specific file extension?
I'd like to search all git tracked files that 1. has an .hs file extension and 2. contain the word import in any lines.
I've tried to use git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rg -g '*.hs' "import" ...
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How does pattern matching work in grep for accented characters (eg. á, è, ò)
What characters match the following regex :
^[a-zA-Z]$
Specifically, should characters with accents (eg. á, è, ò) match this regex? Or just 26 lower and upper case alphabets?
I have tried to check ...
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How to use stdin to give data to rankmirrors command
Probably a rooky question, but I have seen that the "rankmirrors" command can use the stdin input. But when I run the following command (which retrieve all URL in use in the "...
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Recursive grep matching only specific line number
How can I can I find files that contain a specific pattern on a specific line number ?
Let's assume I have a directory with a bunch of text files containing 3 lines, such as:
Title A
Category X
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using ripgrep to find adjacent word
How to use ripgrep to find adjacent duplicated words.
for example
one hello hello world
How to locate hello hello by using ripgrep?
Solved
rg '(hello)[[:blank:]]+\1' --pcre2 <<<'one hello ...
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How to individually process each path from a list of paths output from ripgrep
I'm on Linux Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04.
Ripgrep (rg) can output a list of paths to files containing matches like this:
# search only .txt files
rg 'my pattern to match' -g '*.txt' -l
# long form
rg 'my ...
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How to I properly set the advanced FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND environment variable to get it working properly with ohmyz.sh with fzf plugin installed?
I'm new to z shell and ohmyz.sh.
I have the following in my zshrc to integrate fzf with rg. This is exactly how it appears in the fzf readme:
FZF_BASE=/usr/local/bin
DISABLE_FZF_AUTO_COMPLETION="...
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How to match a literal string containing an unclosed quote with ripgrep?
I have a file that contains the some python code. There is a line that contains the following(including the quotes)
'hello "value"'
I want to search 'hello "value" in the file. ...
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Replace (one or) two different patterns in a file with regexp
Suppose an input.txt file that contains several strings as the following ones:
[[foo>a|a]]
[[foo>b|b]]
[[foo>c|c]]
that I'd like to replace by:
:foo:`a`
:foo:`b`
:foo:`c`
I guess I could ...
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ripgrep type definition to skip tests
I would like to be able to run rg -Ttests instead of typing rg -g'!tests/' -g '!test/' -g'!Tests/' -g '!Test/' , is that possible?
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ripgrep path pattern
I'd like ripgrep to search paths with the specified pattern. For e.g.
rg PATTERN --path REGEX
where PATTERN is the pattern to grep and REGEX is the path matching pattern.
I have scattered through ...
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How can I search a specific list of files with ripgrep?
I've got a list of files that I would like to search for a pattern with ripgrep.
How can this be done?
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How is ripgrep different from silver searcher ag? [closed]
Are these related?
Which is faster?
Can either be limited to directory-names?
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
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ripgrep: print only filenames matching pattern
Using ripgrep (rg), can I print only the filenames which match a given pattern?
There are two separate things I'm trying to do:
Match the pattern to the pathname itself (like ag -g pattern)
Match the ...
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