It's phenomenal, is what it is. An extremely fast, recursive-by-default, general-purpose `grep` clone in Rust.
Alongside `fzf` and `fd` (a similar project for `find`) `rg` was what finally convinced me to put together a few shell scripts to bootstrap getting all my favorite modern command line tools on a new Ubuntu VM [1]. I'm working on an interactive playground you'll be able to SSH into to try it out yourself without even having to spin up your own, so you can see the difference with your own two eyes, no VM required.
Actually I'm running NixOS on an old ThinkPad I have lying around here. Home Manager works great! But Ubuntu currently has the popularity network effect going for it, so.
Alongside `fzf` and `fd` (a similar project for `find`) `rg` was what finally convinced me to put together a few shell scripts to bootstrap getting all my favorite modern command line tools on a new Ubuntu VM [1]. I'm working on an interactive playground you'll be able to SSH into to try it out yourself without even having to spin up your own, so you can see the difference with your own two eyes, no VM required.
[1]: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu