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Can I just say thank you ripgrep?

In my usecase ripgrep is killer, I use it both to search through something around 10GB of a monorepo, and to search through 400GB of textfiles (custom format, similar to json) every day and not having rg performance would make my life considerably worse.

When you have very large sets of data to search through the difference from rp to other solutions is like night and day.



Glad it helps. :) Although, with 400GB, I think any tool would probably get similar performance, since it's likely bottlenecked by your disk's read speed.




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