GNU GREP and RIPGREP The Search Is On

Free Download GNU GREP and RIPGREP The Search Is On by Sundeep Agarwal
English | 2022 | 125 pages | EPUB | 0.39 Mb
You are likely to be familiar with using Ctrl+F from an editor, word processor, web browser, IDE, etc to quickly locate where a particular string occurs. grep is similar, but much more versatile and feature-rich version of the search functionality usable from the command line. Modern requirements have given rise to tools like ripgrep that provide out-of-box features such as recursive search while respecting ignore rules of a version controlled directory. An important feature that the GUI applications may lack is regular expressions, which helps to precisely define a matching criteria. You could consider it as sort of a mini-programming language in itself. So, apart from covering command options, regular expressions will also be discussed in detail in this book.