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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.

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

There are many cool (command-line) tools which can help you quickly find/locate files.

1. find
2. locate
3. osquery
4. fselect
5. ripgrep

Those tools can be combined with the pipe operator | to do further filtering or manipulation. However, after trying all tools I have to state that the best way for a Python user is leveraging the pathlib