I Use Ag Tho

I bought thegrepper.com on a whim, but after checking the manual for grep one too many times I started looking for alternatives. Ag, also known as the Silver Searcher.

ag is better tho

But for real. Everything from the order it takes its arguments, to the maintainers’ emphasis on mneumonics, even how it highlights search results in yellow for you — it’s just better.

It’s also very fast. Much faster than ack, apparently. There’s a chapter about it on Conquering the Command Line that unfortunately I don’t look at often enough.

Get on that ag y’all.