The Silver Searcher
grep
ripgrep
SearchMyFiles
fzf
DocFetcher
SMF – Search my Files
fd
Mawk
ripgrep
Gawk
ack
datamash
And Chill
JREPL.BAT
Agui
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If you have trouble finding it among the other stuff happening in the server log, well, so do I! I recommend learning how to programmatically search through your terminal output. Providing a universal method for this is challenging because various tools and terminal emulators implement this functionality differently. Another option would be to use tools like grep or the_silver_searcher (a favorite of mine) to... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago
Some of the examples below use ag, but could just as well use grep or equivalent. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago
Why guess when [there are installation instructions for various platforms on the README](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#installing)? Also, although it may not be easy to remember, is this really a problem in practice given the installation count in most contexts is one? If there's a context where it's installed regularly, that's... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
URL 🔗 : https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago
My "vim" way of finding all the places where a function is being used: using visual mode, marking the function, and passing it to :Ag (silversearcher) The problem with this is that it is not 100% accurate, since it will just look for things with the same name, so I was thinking about using the LSP to make things more robust. Source: about 1 year ago
- mawk (https://invisible-island.net/mawk/) - bundled in some Linux distros (?), known as the fastest byte-code compiled implementation. All three have very good compatibility, but Gawk is super-set over POSIX standard. I have some evidence here, since I regularly test [1] against these implementations and even some others, like GoAWK. [1] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure/actions/runs/1830978431. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
grep - grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular...
ripgrep - ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep.
Gawk - The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle...
SearchMyFiles - Alternative to the standard Search For Files And Folders module of Windows. Duplicates search is also supported.
ack - Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep.
fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
