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Re:Ask HN: What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/director... by yoo1I on Saturday October 15, 2016 @01:04PM (#12714712)
> I don't know ag and it's not a package in Debian.

You're in for a treat then: the package name is "silversearcher-ag".

Next time you want to grep a directory of files: instead of grepping it, pause, remember this comment, install it and then do "ag <searchterm>" instead.

It's quite a bit faster. Well, lots faster.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/director... by softawre on Saturday October 15, 2016 @01:15PM (#12714748)
faster still: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/director... by e12e on Saturday October 15, 2016 @02:35PM (#12715115)
Interesting. This probably the first utility in Rust I'm aware of that looks like it might belong on a production system (other than "cargo" and other rather excellent rust tooling). Nice way to show off rusts regular expression engine too.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/director... by luibelgo on Saturday October 15, 2016 @05:06PM (#12715643)
Golang flavour https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/director... by lucb1e on Saturday October 15, 2016 @01:25PM (#12714809)
Thanks! I installed it a and aliased grep to 'echo Try ag'.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/director... by hulahoof on Sunday October 16, 2016 @07:52AM (#12718200)
May as well alias grep to ag XD
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/director... by lucb1e on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:05PM (#12719229)
Thought of that, but a quick glance over ag's man page shows there are options that I commonly use with grep that work differently with ag. I don't want to mess something up so I'd rather just show myself a reminder.
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