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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.

Run System Command in Go

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

Comments

  1. exec.Command takes a shell command and optional arguments passed to the shell command, e.g., exec.Command("ls", "-lha"). It does not work if you pass a shell command with arguments as a single string to exec.Command