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Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' by burntsushi on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @09:52PM (#43419216)
> If I like the "finding files with auto filtering" part of ripgrep, how can I use it to feed another grep or even another tool?

`rg --files`

Is your mind blown yet?

> is also about portability

Except for Windows.

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Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' by BoingBoomTschak on Thursday March 20, 2025 @03:30AM (#43420525)
Happy this was thought out! Still everything in one tool, but glad modularity was truly considered.

> Except for Windows.

Of course POSIX portability doesn't apply to OSes which intentionally ignore it. I think I have another flame appreciating guy on the other side of the conversation =)

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Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' by burntsushi on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:23AM (#43422149)
It just means that your claims about portability are, in the real world, far less useful than is imagined. I ship software to Windows users and the "portability" of POSIX doesn't help there. Doesn't matter why to me. It just means that I can't depend on POSIX for the "portability" benefits that its proponents seem to cite so enthusiastically.
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