tldr/pages/common/rg.md

# ripgrep

> A recursive line-oriented CLI search tool.
> Aims to be a faster alternative to `grep`.
> More information: <https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep>.

- Recursively search the current directory for a regex pattern:

`rg {{pattern}}`

- Search for pattern including all .gitignored and hidden files:

`rg -uu {{pattern}}`

- Search for a pattern only in a certain filetype (e.g., html, css, etc.):

`rg -t {{filetype}} {{pattern}}`

- Search for a pattern only in a subset of directories:

`rg {{pattern}} {{set_of_subdirs}}`

- Search for a pattern in files matching a glob (e.g., `README.*`):

`rg {{pattern}} -g {{glob}}`

- Only list matched files (useful when piping to other commands):

`rg --files-with-matches {{pattern}}`

- Show lines that do not match the given pattern:

`rg --invert-match {{pattern}}`

- Search a literal string pattern:

`rg -F {{string}}`