From 837bb80e263dbbfd9bafd802b6031f1d503f59a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Levy Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 15:58:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Include `ack` and `rg` in addition to `ag` Fixes #485 --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8252b29..6328ef4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Notes: - To locate a file by name in the current directory, `find . -iname '*something*'` (or similar). To find a file anywhere by name, use `locate something` (but bear in mind `updatedb` may not have indexed recently created files). -- For general searching through source or data files (more advanced than `grep -r`), use [`ag`](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). +- For general searching through source or data files, there are several options more advanced or faster than `grep -r`, including (in rough order from older to newer) [`ack`](https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack2), [`ag`](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) ("the silver searcher"), and [`rg`](https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack2) (ripgrep). - To convert HTML to text: `lynx -dump -stdin`