Ripgrep Searching CheatSheet
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Ripgrep is a command line tools that searches patterns under your current directory, like the good old grep, but with faster speed. In this post, I list some of the commonly-used flags for ripgrep.
| command | Description |
|---|---|
rg image utils.py | Search in a single file utils.py |
rg image src/ | Search in dir src/ recursively |
rg image | Search image in current dir recursively |
rg '^We' test.txt | Regex searching support (lines starting with We) |
rg -i image | Search image and ignore case (case-insensitive search) |
rg -s image | Smart case search |
rg -F '(test)' | Search literally, i.e., without using regular expression |
rg image -g '*.py' | File globing (search in certain files), can be used multiple times |
rg image -g '!*.py' | Negative file globing (do not search in certain files) |
rg image --type py or rg image -tpy1 | Search image in Python file |
rg image -Tpy | Do not search image in Python file type |
rg -l image | Only show files containing image (Do not show the lines) |
rg --files-without-match image | Show files not containing image |
rg -v image | Inverse search (search files not containing image) |
rg -w image | Search complete word |
rg --count | Show the number of matching lines in a file |
rg --count-matches | Show the number of matchings in a file |
rg neovim --stats | Show the searching stat (how many matches, how many files searched etc.) |
How to enable shell completion for ripgrep?
The binary release of ripgrep also
include completion files for Bash, Zsh. When we extract the binary release, the
completion file is under completion/_rg. For zsh, we should move this file to
one of the paths in env variable $fpath.
How to exclude directories
To exclude directories, we also use the -g option. For example, to exclude
dir1 and dir2, use the following command:
rg pattern -g '!dir1/' -g '!dir2/'
Changelog
update: 2020-12-03, add --stats option
References
To list the supported filetypes, use
rg --type-list. ↩︎