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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 -tpy`¹	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?
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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.