ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search

Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by dreen on Sunday June 09, 2013 @12:30PM (#5849468)

Yeah thats ok but holy cow, thanks for letting me find out about ack! ack is awesome!

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Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by thezilch on Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:58PM (#5849808)

If you like ack (and who doesn't???), you might like more or less `ag`: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by dreen on Sunday June 09, 2013 @04:37PM (#5850475)

I did notice ack is pretty slow and i may try ag but speed isnt a problem here for me i think

btw, heres what ive been using up until now:

    alias gerp='grep -riHnT . -e'

and more recently:

    alias gerp="find . -type f | perl -lne 'print if -T;' | xargs egrep -riHnT"

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Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by brown9-2 on Sunday June 09, 2013 @02:08PM (#5849844)

ag is great - so much faster than Ack.

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Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by klibertp on Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:05PM (#5849594)

Try grin if you're biased in favor of Python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/grin

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