xsv VS ripgrep

Compare xsv vs ripgrep and see what are their differences.

xsv

A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust. (by BurntSushi)

ripgrep

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

Posts with mentions or reviews of xsv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-22.
  • Qsv: Efficient CSV CLI Toolkit
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
  • Joining CSV Data Without SQL: An IP Geolocation Use Case
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023
    I have done some similar, simpler data wrangling with xsv (https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv) and jq. It could process my 800M rows in a couple of minutes (plus the time to read it out from the database =)
  • Qsv: CSVs sliced, diced and analyzed (fork of xsv)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2023
    xsv, which seems to be why qsv was created.

    [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/issues/267

  • I wrote this iCalendar (.ics) command-line utility to turn common calendar exports into more broadly compatible CSV files.
    6 projects | /r/commandline | 24 Mar 2023
    CSV utilities (still haven't pick a favorite one...): https://github.com/harelba/q https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
  • Icsp – Command-line iCalendar (.ics) to CSV parser
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2023
  • ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift}
    8 projects | /r/programming | 24 Mar 2023
    $ git remote -v origin [email protected]:rust-lang/rust (fetch) origin [email protected]:rust-lang/rust (push) $ git rev-parse HEAD 3b0d4813ab461ec81eab8980bb884691c97c5a35 $ time grep -ri burntsushi ./ ./src/tools/cargotest/main.rs: repo: "https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep", ./src/tools/cargotest/main.rs: repo: "https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv", grep: ./target/debug/incremental/cargotest-2dvu4f2km9e91/s-gactj3ma2j-1b10l4z-2l60ur55ixe6n/query-cache.bin: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/incremental/cargotest-38cpmhhbdgdyq/s-gactj3luwq-1o12vgp-t61hd8qdyp7t/query-cache.bin: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/incremental/cargotest-17632op6djxne/s-gawuq5468i-1h69nfw-4gm0s8yhhiun/query-cache.bin: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/incremental/cargotest-2trm4kt5yom3r/s-gawuq53qqg-bjiezj-lo0gha8ign8w/query-cache.bin: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/deps/libregex_automata-c74a6d9fd0abd77b.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/deps/libsame_file-a0e0363a2985455d.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/deps/libsame_file-a0e0363a2985455d.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/deps/libsame_file-7251d8d3586a319b.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-sysroot/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libaho_corasick-999a08e2b700420d.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-sysroot/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libregex_automata-0d168be5d25b3ac5.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libregex_automata-7d6bec0156f15da1.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libregex_automata-7d6bec0156f15da1.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libaho_corasick-07dee4514b87d99b.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libaho_corasick-07dee4514b87d99b.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-rustc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libaho_corasick-999a08e2b700420d.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-rustc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libaho_corasick-999a08e2b700420d.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-rustc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libregex_automata-0d168be5d25b3ac5.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-rustc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libregex_automata-0d168be5d25b3ac5.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libaho_corasick-992e1ba08ef83436.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libignore-54d41239d2761852.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libsame_file-9a5e3ddd89cfe599.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libregex_automata-8e700951c9869a66.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libignore-54d41239d2761852.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libaho_corasick-992e1ba08ef83436.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libregex_automata-8e700951c9869a66.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libsame_file-9a5e3ddd89cfe599.rmeta: binary file matches real 16.683 user 15.793 sys 0.878 maxmem 8 MB faults 0
  • Any Linux admins willing to try Pygrep?
    6 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 18 Mar 2023
    Unrelated, are you the same burntsushi that wrote xsv?
  • Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2023
    If it could be tabular in nature, maybe convert to sqlite3 so you can make use of indexing, or CSV to make use of high-performance tools like xsv or zsv (the latter of which I'm an author).

    https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

    https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv/blob/main/docs/csv_json_sql...

    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2023
  • What monitoring tool do you use or recommend?
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 6 Mar 2023
    Oh and there's rad cli shit out there for CSV files too, like xsv

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 xsv 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

csvtk - A cross-platform, efficient and practical CSV/TSV toolkit in Golang

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

miller - Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON

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

Parallel

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

Servo - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine