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Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by fnord77 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:20PM (#21364548)
No mention of things that have gained a lot of traction, like `ag` and `fzf`

ag: - silver searcher, fast parallelized recursive grep that can abide by things like `.gitignore`

fzf: - fuzzy finder

powerline-shell - $PS1 on steroids

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Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by epage on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:21PM (#21366300)
It does mention rg which is in the same category as ag and, maybe this is my own bias, seems to have more mindshare now.
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Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by ibly31 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @12:31PM (#21370719)
Agreed - I used to use Ag but switched to Ripgrep. Better in every single way, in my opinion. It's obscenely fast and has good defaults
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Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by grosswait on Saturday October 26, 2019 @02:43PM (#21365437)
I find the to be faster than ag personally
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Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by fnord77 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:41PM (#21389911)
On a simple case, `time rg ^:debug ~/projects`, `ag` appears to be about 10% faster for me, which is negligible for most cases anyway.

Maybe rg is faster on more complex cases?

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Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by burntsushi on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:16PM (#21424696)
Can you reproduce it in a public corpus and file a bug report? ripgrep should never be slower than ag.
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Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by Graziano_M on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:25PM (#21422744)
ripgrep >> ag

and skim is a rust clone of fzf

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