Linux grep and ripgrep Cheat Sheet/Search recursively with ripgrep

Fast codebase search.

Section: ripgrep (rg)

Search recursively with ripgrep

bash
bash
rg TODO src/
Explanation

ripgrep respects common ignore files and is usually faster than recursive grep for code.

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