ripgrep
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ELI5 — The Vibe Check
ripgrep (rg) does what grep does but much faster and smarter. It automatically skips node_modules, .git dirs, and anything in your .gitignore. It colors the output, searches recursively by default, and supports Unicode. The first time you run rg on a large codebase and see how fast it is, you'll quietly uninstall grep.
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