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When comparing rare vs The Silver Searcher, the Slant community recommends The Silver Searcher for most people. In the question“What are the best command-line tools for searching plain-text data using regular expressions?” The Silver Searcher is ranked 1st while rare is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose The Silver Searcher is:
The Silver Searcher is lightning fast.
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Pros
Pro Similar to grep/awk
Pro Fast regex parsing
Pro Realtime text analysis
Pro Full PCRE regex support
Pro Reads from STDIN
Pro Speed
The Silver Searcher is lightning fast.
Pro Idiot proof
"ag searchterm" - it's that simple in its purest form.
Pro Support VCS ignore files
Ag can speed up by ignoring files matched by pattern in ".agignore" (deprecated), ".ignore" (since ag-v0.33.0), and VCS ignore files (.gitignore, .git/info/exclude, .hgignore, svn:ignore).
Pro Good overview of results
Grouped by file, highlighted with background color, linenumbers by default
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