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Re:Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift ... by nathell on Thursday November 30, 2023 @07:54AM (#38472867)
I’m a die-hard ripgrep fan, but just recently found ugrep looking for one feature that ripgrep lacks: searching in zip archives (without decompressing them to disk).

Ugrep has that. In my case, I’m working with zipped corpora of millions of small text files, so I can skip unpacking the whole thing to the filesystem (certain filesystems have trouble at this scale).

I’m grateful for both tools. Thanks to the respective authors!

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Re:Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift ... by Eremotherium on Thursday November 30, 2023 @09:43AM (#38474092)
That's where ripgrep-all comes into play which will grep through archives, PDFs, ebooks, documents, etc.
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