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Real examples here?
(discuss.tchncs.de)
Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.
But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.
What does that offer offer grep/egrep
much faster
proper unicode (and other encodings) support
automatic recursion (no extra flags needed)
can search inside compressed files/archives like gz/xz/zip (also see ripgrep-all) for even more archive support)
honors
.gitignoreand ignores binary/hidden filesprobably a lot more things too
Speed and memory efficiency, mostly. If you ever have to grep for something in a large number of files ripgrep will be done while regular grep will only be reaching the 25% mark.