- https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
- github.com/rust-lang/rustup/src/rustup-cli/help.rs
- ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool actively that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern
- rg actively use by GitHub copilot agents
ripgrep installation in Windows (Git Bash):
kaau@OCLT71159526 ~$ cd ${HOME}
kaau@OCLT71159526 ~$ which curl
/c/WINDOWS/System32/curl
#
# download and unzip ripgrep:
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kaau@OCLT71159526 ~$ cd /tmp
kaau@OCLT71159526 /tmp$ curl -L -o ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip \
[[yellow:https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/15.2.0/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip]]
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
100 1.79M 100 1.79M 0 0 1.62M 0 00:01 00:01 0
(venv) kaau@OCLT71159526 /tmp$ ls -lh /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaau 1049089 1.8M Aug 8 09:48 /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip
(venv) kaau@OCLT71159526 /tmp$ unzip /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip
Archive: /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip
creating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/
creating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/complete/
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/complete/rg.bash
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/complete/rg.fish
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/complete/_rg
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/complete/_rg.ps1
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/COPYING
creating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/doc/
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/doc/CHANGELOG.md
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/doc/FAQ.md
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/doc/GUIDE.md
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/doc/rg.1
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/LICENSE-MIT
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/README.md
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/rg.exe ---this!
inflating: ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/UNLICENSE
kaau@OCLT71159526 /tmp$ ls -l /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/rg.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kaau 1049089 4468736 Jul 15 16:10 /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/rg.exe
kaau@OCLT71159526 /tmp$ file /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/rg.exe
/tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/rg.exe: PE32+ executable for MS Windows 5.02 (console), x86-64 (stripped to external PDB), 9 sections
kaau@OCLT71159526 /tmp$ mv /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/rg.exe ${HOME}/bin
kaau@OCLT71159526 /tmp$ which rg
/c/Users/kaau/bin/rg
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# clean-up:
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kaau@OCLT71159526 /tmp$ rm -rf /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip /tmp/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
Dry run:
kaau@OCLT71159526 /tmp$ cd ${HOME}
kaau@OCLT71159526 ~$ ls -l ${HOME}/.bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaau 1049089 514 Jun 6 12:13 /c/Users/kaau/.bashrc
kaau@OCLT71159526 ~$ cat ${HOME}/.bashrc
[[blue:# generated by Git for Windows]]
[[blue:test -f ~/.profile && . ~/.profile]]
[[blue:]]
[[blue:# Optimized PATH]]
[[blue:PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/c/Users/kaau/bin"]]
[[blue:PATH="${PATH}:/c/WINDOWS/System32:/c/Program Files/Git/bin"]]
[[blue:PATH="${PATH}:/c/Program Files/Python/Python314:/c/Program Files/Python/Python314/Scripts"]]
[[blue:PATH="${PATH}:/c/Program Files/nodejs"]]
[[blue:PATH="${PATH}:/c/Users/kaau/cdk/node_modules/.bin"]]
[[blue:#PS1='\[\033[32m\]\u@\h\[\033[0m\] \w$([ "$PWD" != "$HOME" ] && echo " ~") $ ']]
[[blue:PS1='\[\033[32m\]\u@\h\[\033[0m\] \w$ ']]
kaau@OCLT71159526 ~$ rg kaau ${HOME}/.bashrc
5:PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/c/Users/kaau/bin"
9:PATH="${PATH}:/c/Users/kaau/cdk/node_modules/.bin"