5 alternatives to ripgrep

burntsushi/ripgrep — ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore (69,294 stars, Unlicense, dev-tools, search, cli).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 83 licence-cleared components from burntsushi/ripgrep itself.

The alternatives in detail

• sharkdp/fd
  A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
  score 1.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 44,823 stars · 24 components · search them · alternatives
• ast-grep/ast-grep
  ⚡A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust
  score 7.0/10 · MIT permissive · 16,354 stars · 143 components · search them
• canop/broot
  A new way to see and navigate directory trees
  score 7.4/10 · MIT permissive · 13,103 stars · 217 components · search them
• toptal/gitignore.io
  Create useful .gitignore files for your project
  score 4.4/10 · MIT permissive · 8,764 stars · 16 components · search them
• ajeetdsouza/zoxide
  A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
  score 2.5/10 · MIT permissive · 40,231 stars · 24 components · search them

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