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		qsera 43 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt... True, but easier said than done, because one often need to work in more shells than their local machines..

pie_flavor 43 days ago | [–]

This is a nonstandard tool. If you can't customize your machine, you already don't have it.

qsera 43 days ago | | [–]

But it could be one day..

worksonmine 43 days ago | [–]

Do something like this to fall back to plain grep. You will somehow have to share these configurations across machines though.

    alias g=grep
    command -v rg 2>&1/dev/null && alias g=rg

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