Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by karatestomp on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:17PM (#23471014)

I must forget to give grep an filesystem path argument at least 10% of the time I invoke it. What I'm intending to do in all of those cases is recursively grep in the current directory. "Warning: recursive search of stdin" might be my most-seen console error message.

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by 0xADEADBEE on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:41PM (#23471221)

This used to happen to me constantly. I fixed it accidentally in switching to Ripgrep [0] which defaults to recursively searching the current directory. Bonus: it parallelises too!

Honourable mention also to FZF [1] which not only makes it trivial to locate a file in a directory tree, but has revolutionised my history use with its fuzzy matching.

[0] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

[1] - https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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