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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.