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by yodsanklai 3205 days ago
I really like the "ag" command. Very convenient to grep in a bunch of files filtered by type. Example:

    ag --ocaml to_string
Very fast and simple syntax.
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kaushalmodi 3205 days ago
Now try rg (ripgrep). It has a much more robust file ignore handling than ag in my experience.

When I last tried, ag couldn't handle this in .ignore file:

    !foo.1
    foo.*
That would ignore all foo.* files except foo.1 in rg.

Also rg is a bit faster than ag for my use cases.

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VeejayRampay 3205 days ago
Is it possible to register new file formats in ripgrep though (say for example slim files so that I could do rg -tslim PATTERN)? Last time I checked it was somehow possible but way too complicated for so common a task.
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kaushalmodi 3205 days ago
From its README:

    rg --type-add 'foo:*.{foo,foobar}' -tfoo bar
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You simply make the below into an alias:

    rg --type-add 'foo:*.{foo,foobar}'
Or, if the type you need is generic that other users can also use, submit a PR. The developer was kind to except mine.. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/107/files .. it's a trivial 1-line PR.
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