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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What does that offer offer grep/egrep

[–] refalo 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

much faster
proper unicode (and other encodings) support
automatic recursion (no extra flags needed)
can search inside compressed files/archives like gz/xz/zip (also see ripgrep-all) for even more archive support)
honors .gitignore and ignores binary/hidden files

probably a lot more things too

[–] riskable 22 points 4 months ago

Speed and memory efficiency, mostly. If you ever have to grep for something in a large number of files ripgrep will be done while regular grep will only be reaching the 25% mark.