Feature comparison of ack, ag, Git-grep, grep and ripgrep

• website

  4 37 1.1 Perl

  The source code for the beyondgrep.com website (by beyondgrep)

  

That's how I had it at first.

I originally had it as a "phrasebook" of how to do the same thing in the different tools, but it was really ugly and took up a lot of horizontal space, and I figured it was more useful as a chart of yes/no. Also, there were cases where two tools had pretty much the same feature, but not exactly, so just listing flags didn't make sense.

I've still got a lot of the data of the switches in the JSON file that I build the chart from. https://github.com/beyondgrep/website/blob/dev/features.json If you've got ideas on how to bring back the phrasebook format, either integrated into this page, or as a separate standalone page, I'd love to hear them. Maybe the phrasebook isn't best done as a table like this, for example. Open a ticket in GitHub and let me know your thoughts.

• ugrep

  24 2,429 9.1 C++

  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

  

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• duckduckgo-locales

  2,077 94 0.0 Perl

  Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  

There are a ton of articles out there about it:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ripgrep+%2B+fzf

• altbox

  3 47 0.0 HTML

  Website for altbox.dev, the alternative toolbox for developers

Here's another site of mine y'all may be interested in: https://altbox.dev/

It's a collection of improved shell tools, organized by the tool they supplement.

As with this feature comparison chart, patches and suggestions are welcome: https://github.com/petdance/altbox

• ripgrep

  348 44,747 9.3 Rust

  ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

I don't think the existence of a crate or not really impacts anything I said. More to the point, it would put a reliance on someone else to maintain a crate for critical functionality in ripgrep.

It makes a lot more sense to me for something like Hyperscan to be maintained out of tree. I did work with the patch author a bit, and in particular, made some changes to ripgrep to make maintaining such a fork easier: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1488

Bottom line is, a lot of people think that adding a dependency has nearly zero cost. But it doesn't. Not by a long shot.

• WorkOS

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