ripgrep
by BurntSushi
ripgrep is a command-line tool that searches through folders of files for text matching a pattern. It skips files listed in .gitignore, hidden files and binary files by default, which keeps results relevant and fast.
Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).
- Stars
- 69.5k +20 a day
- Licence
- Unlicense
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- Rust
- Age
- 3882 days
What you can do with it
- Search a whole project folder for a word or regular expression in moments
- Limit searches to certain file types, such as Python only, or exclude others
- Search large text files and logs, with line numbers and whole-word matching
Ways a business could use it
- Quickly find where a setting, price or customer-facing text appears across a website or app codebase, saving developer time
- Search through exported logs or large text data files to track down errors without paying for a log search service
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Download a ready-made binary from the GitHub releases page or install it through a package manager; it runs from the command line on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Command-line only, so it takes some comfort with a terminal
- Not a full drop-in replacement for grep in every case
Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
