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The Silver Searcher - a fast code search tool inspired by ack
Description
ag (The Silver Searcher) is a text search utility targeted at source code. It skips versioning system data directories and is inspired by ack, but significantly faster. It searches code roughly 3-5x faster than ack by using parallelism and ignoring files from .gitignore.
AI Summary
Fast code search tool that is significantly faster than ack and grep
Capabilities
- + Search source code files very quickly using parallelism
- + Respect .gitignore and .hgignore rules
- + Skip binary files and VCS directories automatically
- + Support Perl-compatible regular expressions
Use When
- → You need fast text search through source code
- → You want a faster alternative to ack or grep
Avoid When
- x You want the fastest possible search (use ripgrep instead)