I’ve found this to be pretty useful when needing to do recursive / multi-file search and replace. Also has bindings to work within terminal text editors like vim and helix.

Uses rust and ripgrep under the hood for speed.

  • tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Thanks, that’ll come in handy!

    I guess it’s worth mentioning that once (only once) I’ve seen ripgrep bring a whole LAMP stack production server to a full tilt. A dev using VSCode (which has rg as part of its ‘trojan horse’ vscode-server it installs and runs as root on any server it’s used to edit) did a search and ripgrep went into some kind of death loop hogging 100% of all cpu cores. Probably rare, but kind of shocked me. All our servers now babysit vscode-server with cgroups…

      • tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        11 hours ago

        The dev’s VSCode application installs a helper package in /root/.vscode-server. Separate copy for every user that connects. It runs a bunch of ‘node’ processes that often stack up more used CPU time than MySQL. I’m not a fan…

        • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          Interesting, I appreciate the explanation.

          It’s crazy how much a single node instance can max out my huge desktop CPU, so I can imagine.