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The ripgrep Command Is a Better Alternative to the find Command

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu Based Linux Distributions

wajig install ripgrep 

Installation on macOS

brew install ripgrep 

List Files

There are 2 ways to list files using ripgrep. The first way is file name (globbing pattern) based and the second way is file content (regex pattern) based.

Fix Shell Commands Using fc

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

fzf.history is a better alternative to fc's core functionality (edit and re-execute command).

Tips & Traps

  1. In Linux shells like Bash and Zsh, fc is a built-in command that stands …