mask VS ripgrep

Compare mask vs ripgrep and see what are their differences.

mask

🎭 A CLI task runner defined by a simple markdown file (by jacobdeichert)

ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore (by BurntSushi)
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6.0 9.3
4 months ago 4 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License The Unlicense
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mask

Posts with mentions or reviews of mask. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-12.
  • Mask – A CLI task runner defined by a simple Markdown file
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jun 2022
  • How to improve my Rust workflow?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 12 Apr 2022
    Another alternative I'll add is my mask CLI tool. It reads a markdown file and parses it for a command structure. Markdown code blocks are used to define bash/zsh/python/ruby/node scripts all within a single file.
  • anyone using rust in production? what do you do?
    22 projects | /r/rust | 30 Mar 2022
    I also build and maintain a Rust-based CLI tool called mask. While this doesn't run in production, it powers everything from my local development workflow to my CI and production deployment flow.
  • Rust Is for Professionals
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2021
  • My Latest Side Project: Modal File Manager
    4 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2021
    It is a new project that is currently in Alpha stage. You can download from my GitHub account and play with it. It is built using Svelte, Nw.js, and mask script running.
  • Rust Foundation: Hello, World
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2021
    I mentioned elsewhere in this thread that I built a jigsaw puzzle website [1] with a Rust API backend and I launched it last week. It definitely took longer than if I had used Node, but I enjoy working with Rust much more.

    Apart from that website, I have also open sourced a Rust CLI task runner [2] which uses markdown files as a command definition format. This is probably the most important tool I've ever written, as I have used it every single day since.

    [1]: https://puzzlepanda.com

    [2]: https://github.com/jakedeichert/mask

  • Controling your Computer from a Phone
    2 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2021
    At the top level, there are three things: the server directory, the UI directory, and a maskfile.md file for using mask. Mask is a great tool for running scripts on your project. I use it all the time.

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 mask and ripgrep you can also consider the following projects:

regex - An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.

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

hyperscan - High-performance regular expression matching library

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

xtensa-rust-quickstart - A demo crate for the xtensa uC's (ESP32, ESP8266)

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

fsharp-formatting-conventions - G-Research F# code formatting guidelines

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

wasm-astar - 👾 Rust WebAssembly A* Pathfinding Demo

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

foundation.rust-lang.org - website for Rust Foundation

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.