Richard KogelnigDec 22, 2022

Besides Procmon the tool next "hammer" on my toolbelt is ripgrep. If you need to search in a local codebase I can highly recommend installing it (adding it to your PATH on windows) and then just "rg" for any text. It's blazingly fast!

Pitfall: it obeys .gitignore (and other ignore) files and if you need to search in ignored files as well add the --no-ignore option.

Get it from the releases of https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

GitHub - BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore - BurntSushi/ripgrep

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Interesting read about why/how ripgrep is so fast in the blogpost
here: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift} - Andrew Gallant's Blog

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Dec 22, 2022 at 6:14pmWeb