dotfiles VS ripgrep

Compare dotfiles vs ripgrep and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

My configuration files and personal collection of scripts. (by BurntSushi)

ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore (by BurntSushi)
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dotfiles ripgrep
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8.8 9.3
23 days ago 2 days ago
Vim Script Rust
- The Unlicense
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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.
  • Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023
    So ired is a toy. One wonders how many search results you've missed over the years because of ired's feature "it's so minimal that it's wrong!" I mean sometimes tools have bugs. ripgrep has had bugs too. But this one has been in ired since 2009.

    What is it that you said? YIKES. Yeah. Seems appropriate.

    [1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/eace294fd80bfde1...

    [2]: https://github.com/radare/ired/blob/a1fa7904e6ad239dde950de5...

  • Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2023
    I've been using X11 on my Framework laptop for years. No desktop environment at all. Just my regulard old school window manager[1]. No KDE or GNOME. But also no XFCE.

    The only thing I had to do to get scaling working for me was set two environment variables[2].

    I was indeed worried about this when I bought the laptop. Prior to this, I avoided anything with resolutions higher than 1920x1200. But it turned out that everything mostly worked with a couple tweaks.

    I think the only real issue I've run into is `git gui`. As I understand it, the GUI toolkit it uses doesn't support scaling? Not sure. I ended up working around it by just increasing font sizes. I suppose this exposes the weakness that is probably impacting you: the scaling on my laptop is being done by the GUI toolkits, not the display server or compositor. (I don't always run a compositor, but when I do, I use `picom`. Mostly just to avoid tearing.)

    [1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo

    [2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/ea3a88e6160f4244...

  • Docfd 0.8.5 TUI fuzzy document finder
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 20 May 2023
    Here's a really simple example: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/214aab9fdc45e7a507d41b564a1136eea9b298c9/bin/pre-rg
  • What setup do you use to program in rust?
    5 projects | /r/rust | 3 May 2023
    The full details of my setup (and more) are here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles
  • Fastest XML node parsing library in Rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 8 Apr 2023
    If it turns out to be the library (I'd wager not, 4 minutes feels excessive), then you could give roxmltree a try. This program deals with about 7GB of XML (my SMS history for the past few years) in about 15 seconds.
  • Do people write whole APIs in Rust?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 2 Apr 2023
    Did you try roxmltree? It worked really well for me and was quite fast: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/90f2acf2f45548ca0ff2da827f3108be0a965b74/bin/rust/searchsms/main.rs
  • would you use rust for scripting?
    6 projects | /r/rust | 20 Mar 2023
    find-invalid-utf8: walks a directory tree and prints invalid UTF-8 in files using nice hex escapes with coloring. This is useful for honing on in where invalid UTF-8 occur. You have a good bet of finding some by checking out any moderately sized repository of code. The Linux kernel used to have some. The Mozilla repo does. The CPython repo does too. This is why it's important for CLI tools to deal with invalid UTF-8 gracefully in some way.
  • What are some less popular but well-made crates you'd like others to know about?
    12 projects | /r/rust | 8 Jan 2023
    Yeah it's great! I used it to implement a little utility to convert a subset of SMS/MMS messages from an XML backup to a more readable plain text version: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/0b075d79a6ff8812a1f48a37b9858938b3eadc58/bin/rust/searchsms/main.rs
  • Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
    73 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2022
    My dotfiles: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles

    Here are some selected scripts folks might find interesting.

    Here's my backup script that I use to encrypt my data at rest before shipping it off to s3. Runs every night and is idempotent. I use s3 lifecycle rules to keep data around for 6 months after it's deleted. That way, if my script goofs, I can recover: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

    I have so many machines running Archlinux that I wrote my own little helper for installing Arch that configures the machine in the way I expect: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

    A tiny little script to recover the git commit message you spent 10 minutes writing, but "lost" because something caused the actual commit to fail (like a gpg error): https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

    A script that produces a GitHub permalink from just a file path and some optional file numbers. Pass --clip to put it on your clipboard: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae... --- I use it with this vimscript function to quickly generate permalinks from my editor: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

    A wrapper around 'gh' (previously: 'hub') that lets you run 'hub-rollup pr-number' and it will automatically rebase that PR into your current branch. This is useful for creating one big "rollup" branch of a bunch of PRs. It is idempotent. https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

    Scale a video without having to memorize ffmpeg's crazy CLI syntax: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

    Under X11, copy something to your clipboard using the best tool available: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae...

  • Is it common for you guys to have an update break your system?
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 11 Aug 2022
    Otherwise, the most common "breakage" I get is when I forget to update in a while. Used to be a mostly non-issue until package signing became a thing. Now I get lots of signing errors when I update. When that happens, I run this script and it usually fixes things: https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/2f58eedf3b7f7dae7f0a7cea1a641459e25e5d07/bin/pacman-fix-keys

ripgrep

Posts with mentions or reviews of ripgrep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-17.
  • Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
    ripgrep - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
  • Code Search Is Hard
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024
    Basic code searching skills seems like something new developers are never explicitly taught, but which is an absolutely crucial skill to build early on.

    I guess the knowledge progression I would recommend would look something kind this:

    - Learning about Ctrl+F, which works basically everywhere.

    - Transitioning to ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - I wouldn't even call this optional, it's truly an incredible and very discoverable tool. Requires keeping a terminal open, but that's a good thing for a newbie!

    - Optional, but highly recommended: Learning one of the powerhouse command line editors. Teenage me recommended Emacs; current me recommends vanilla vim, purely because some flavor of it is installed almost everywhere. This is so that you can grep around and edit in the same window.

    - In the same vein, moving back from ripgrep and learning about good old fashioned grep, with a few flags rg uses by default: `grep -r` for recursive search, `grep -ri` for case insensitive recursive search, and `grep -ril` for case insensitive recursive "just show me which files this string is found in" search. Some others too, season to taste.

    - Finally hitting the wall with what ripgrep can do for you and switching to an actual indexed, dedicated code search tool.

  • Level Up Your Dev Workflow: Conquer Web Development with a Blazing Fast Neovim Setup (Part 1)
    12 projects | dev.to | 16 Mar 2024
    live grep: ripgrep
  • Ripgrep
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2024
  • Modern Java/JVM Build Practices
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2024
    The world has moved on though to opinionated tools, and Rust isn't even the furthest in that direction (That would be Go). The equivalent of those two lines in Cargo.toml would be this example of a basic configuration from the jacoco-maven-plugin: https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/examples/build/pom.x... - That's 40 lines in the section to do the "defaults".

    Yes, you could add a load of config for files to include/exclude from coverage and so on, but the idea that that's a norm is way more common in Java projects than other languages. Like here's some example Cargo.toml files from complicated Rust projects:

    Servo: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/main/Cargo.toml

    rust-gdext: https://github.com/godot-rust/gdext/blob/master/godot-core/C...

    ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/Cargo.toml

    socketio: https://github.com/1c3t3a/rust-socketio/blob/main/socketio/C...

  • Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023
    I'm not clear on why you're seeing the results you are. It could be because your haystack is so small that you're mostly just measuring noise. ripgrep 14 did introduce some optimizations in workloads like this by reducing match overhead, but I don't think it's anything huge in this case. (And I just tried ripgrep 13 on the same commands above and the timings are similar if a tiny bit slower.)

    [1]: https://github.com/radare/ired

    [2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/discussions/2597

  • Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023
  • Potencializando Sua Experiência no Linux: Conheça as Ferramentas em Rust para um Desenvolvimento Eficiente
    5 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2023
    Explore o Ripgrep no repositório oficial: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
  • Scrybble is the ReMarkable highlights to Obsidian exporter I have been looking for
    9 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 7 Dec 2023
    🔎🗃️ ripgrep or ugrep (search fast, use regex patterns or fuzzy search, pipe output to bash/zsh shell for further processing V coloring)
  • RFC: Add ngram indexing support to ripgrep (2020)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and ripgrep you can also consider the following projects:

nvim-tree.lua - A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua

telescope-live-grep-args.nvim - Live grep with args

git-crypt - Transparent file encryption in git

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

rust-script - Run Rust files and expressions as scripts without any setup or compilation step.

ugrep - NEW ugrep 5.1: an ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep. Ugrep combines the best features of other grep, adds new features, and searches fast. Includes a TUI and adds Google-like search, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches nested archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

the_silver_searcher - A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

rust.vim - Vim configuration for Rust.

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

nocode - The best way to write secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.