Try / Ripgrep in Y Minutes

I guess some might say that tools like this shouldn’t have built-in recursive mode (or am I making this up) since you can use xargs(1). But in my experience that is very painful for an interactive tool.

For some reason I haven’t tried ripgrep yet but I do use `git grep` a lot (which also lets you recurse). git-grep will also let you use “pathspecs” which is a kind of built-in functionality for things like globbing.

A bit of an aside, but I really like "guides to things we otherwise take for granted". So few man pages are built around example use cases, but those are often what make the case for a tool!

A similar spirit to projects like https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/ , but this has a lot more useful detail.

The ripgrep author has a blog post on performance and benchmarking that is an interesting read in itself: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/