pipe-rename VS ripgrep

Compare pipe-rename vs ripgrep and see what are their differences.

pipe-rename

Rename your files using your favorite text editor (by marcusbuffett)

ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore (by BurntSushi)
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pipe-rename

Posts with mentions or reviews of pipe-rename. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-04.
  • Newbie to powershell, need help I want to remove the words “Supplemental Reading” from all files at once what would be the correct command line to do so
    1 project | /r/commandline | 24 Oct 2022
    On Linux, I'd use this: github.com/marcusbuffett/pipe-rename
  • Need a Rename Utility
    4 projects | /r/MacOS | 4 Jul 2022
    if you like vim syntax, you might enjoy pipe-renamer. The file list is opened in a text editor, and names actually get modified on 'write'. You can do complex things and see the final result before executing anything.
  • How to manage files using xplr
    9 projects | dev.to | 11 Jun 2022
    Press r to rename and ctrl-d to duplicate the path under focus. By default, xplr uses mv to rename and cp to duplicate files. To rename or duplicate multiple paths at-once, you will need to select the paths and invoke the shell by typing : ! and run a custom command on the paths listed in the $XPLR_PIPE_SELECTION_OUT file. Or you can use tools like vidir or pipe-rename. See the batch rename hack.
  • A list of new(ish) command line tools – Julia Evans
    56 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2022
    I really like the approach of pipe-rename (https://github.com/marcusbuffett/pipe-rename) for renaming many files. It's especially convenient for people who can efficiently edit many files in their favorite text editor (so everybody here, I guess).

    Main problem: you maybe don't do this kind of operation frequently enough to remember how it's called or how you aliased it.

  • Looking for some small rust projects with an elegant code base that I can study.
    11 projects | /r/rust | 16 Mar 2022
  • Seeking a terminal file manager
    5 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 23 Aug 2021
    I was making one then I found the marvelous pipe-rename and I decided I wouldn't be able to do better.
  • Awesome Rewrite It In Rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
    62 projects | /r/rust | 27 May 2021
    sad CLI search and replace | Space Age seD tcount Count your code by tokens, types of syntax tree nodes, and patterns in the syntax tree. A tokei/scc/cloc alternative. nushell A new type of shell fclones Efficient Duplicate File Finder hunter The fastest file manager in the galaxy! teip Select partial standard input and replace with the result of another command efficiently cb Command line interface to manage clipboard semiuniq A uniq-like tool for removing nearby repeated lines in a file" dua-cli View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast. htmlq Like jq, but for HTML. pipecolor A terminal filter to colorize output crowbook Converts books written in Markdown to HTML, LaTeX/PDF and EPUB delta A viewer for git and diff output mdcat cat for markdown pueue Manage your shell commands. gitui Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀 pipr A tool to interactively write shell pipelines. rename Rename your files using your favorite text editor bropages Highly readable supplement to man pages from http://bropages.org. Shows simple, concise examples for commands with syntax highlighting. html2md convert simple html documents into markdown bk Terminal Epub reader rs A safe Rust crate for working with the Wayland clipboard. viu Simple terminal image viewer written in Rust. alacritty A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. wezterm A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
  • Vimv: a command line utility for batch-renaming files from the comfort of your favourite text editor
    2 projects | /r/rust | 25 Feb 2021
    Is it different from https://github.com/marcusbuffett/pipe-rename ?
  • F2 — a CLI tool to batch rename files and directories quickly and safely
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 23 Feb 2021
    Here's a brilliant alternative I use for renaming many files without learning a new syntax: https://github.com/marcusbuffett/pipe-rename

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 pipe-rename and ripgrep you can also consider the following projects:

f2 - F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely. Written in Go!

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

rage - A simple, secure and modern file encryption tool (and Rust library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

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

stitch - Communication between threads in a reactive, real-time safe manner.

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

chess-tactics-cli - A tactics trainer for the command line

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

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

nushell - A new type of shell