ripgrep Manual

About

1. ripgrep (command: rg) is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.


2. It is much faster than grep


3. Basic usage: rg <pattern>


4. Matches lines with "foo" or "bar": rg "foo|bar"


5. Disables regex, searches literally: rg -F "foo.bar"


6. Only search in certain file types: rg "import" --type py


7. Exclude search from certain file types: rg "main" --type-not cpp


8. Search by file extension: rg "main" -g "*.cpp"


9. ripgrep os usually 2x ~ 10x faster thant traditional grep:


• Respects .gitignore, .ignore, .rgignore


• Skips hidden files and binary files by default.




10. If you want to include everything: rg --no-ignore --hidden <pattern>


11. Useful options


• -i (case-insensitive search)


• -w (match whole words only)


• -n (show line numbers, it is on by default)


• -A 3 (show 3 lines after match)


• -B 3 (show 3 lines before match)


• -l (list only filenames with match)


• -c (count matches per file)


• -F (treat pattern as fixed string, not regex)


• --no-ignore (dont respect .gitignore)


• --hidden (include hidden files)


• -g "pattern" (filter by glob pattern)


• -t <lang> (limit to certain languages)