ripgrep vs ack
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ripgrep is the Rust-based recursive grep replacement; ack is the Perl-based one designed to skip .gitignore. ripgrep is faster on almost every workload and is now the default on most developer machines (it's even aliased as 'rg' on modern Linux distros).
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