Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : ripgrep Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Andrew Gallant <jams...@gmail.com> * URL or Web page : https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep * License : Unlicence/MIT Description : line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore rules. To a first approximation, ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (similar to ack) with the raw speed of GNU grep. On the upstream web page one can find a comparison between ripgrep, ag, git grep, sift, pt, ack, usg, and GNU grep. A more elaborated comparison can be found at the author's blog post [0]. In a nutshell ripgrep is faster than any mentioned alternative, and provides almost the same number features. There's a PPA with ripgrep packages for Ubuntu artful and zesty [1], so Debian package can be easily based on the existing Ubuntu package. As I understand packaging ripgrep for Debian will require packaging several Rust libraries. I'm not familiar with Rust (well, non at all), so CCing pkg-rust-maintainers in hope somebody will be interested %) [0] http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ [1] https://launchpad.net/~x4121/+archive/ubuntu/ripgrep
