ack3 VS ripgrep

Compare ack3 vs ripgrep and see what are their differences.

ack3

ack is a grep-like search tool optimized for source code. (by beyondgrep)

ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore (by BurntSushi)
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ack3 ripgrep
21 346
665 44,253
2.1% -
4.3 9.3
22 days ago about 18 hours ago
Perl Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later The Unlicense
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ack3

Posts with mentions or reviews of ack3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.

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 2024-03-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ack3 and ripgrep you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

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

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

python-regex-cheatsheet - Python 2.7 Regular Expression cheatsheet, as a restructured text document and Makefile to convert it to PDF

Parallel

fzf.vim - fzf :heart: vim

xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output

jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]