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Grep projects on GitHub

Text search tools for finding patterns in files, including classic grep and faster alternatives.

As of , the most-starred Grep projects on GitHub are ripgrep (69.2K stars), the_silver_searcher (27.1K stars) and ast-grep (16.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 8 Grep repositories with 157.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was ripgrep, with +32 stars in a day.

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157.7KStars in total
+78Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+32

ripgrep

BurntSushi/ripgrep · ★ 69.2K

ripgrep (rg) is a line-oriented command-line tool that recursively searches directories for a regex pattern, automatically respecting .gitignore rules and skipping hidden and binary files by default.

+22

fsearch

noahdunnagan/fsearch · ★ 2.1K

FSearch is a whole-disk file search tool for macOS that finds any file by name in about a millisecond, tolerates typos, and can search inside file contents using an index.

+11

ast-grep

ast-grep/ast-grep · ★ 16.3K

ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for structural search, linting and rewriting of source code — like grep, but matching the abstract syntax tree instead of raw text.

+8

fff

dmtrKovalenko/fff · ★ 11.1K

A Rust file-search toolkit for humans and AI agents: typo-resistant path and content search ranked by how often you touch files, shipped as an SDK, an MCP server and a Neovim plugin. It powers search in opencode and nushell.

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8 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · BurntSushi/ripgrep

    ripgrep

    ripgrep (rg) is a line-oriented command-line tool that recursively searches directories for a regex pattern, automatically respecting .gitignore rules and skipping hidden and binary files by default.

    69.2K
  2. #2 · ggreer/the_silver_searcher

    the_silver_searcher

    The Silver Searcher (ag) is a command-line code-searching tool similar to ack, built with a focus on speed.

    27.1K
  3. #3 · ast-grep/ast-grep

    ast-grep

    ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for structural search, linting and rewriting of source code — like grep, but matching the abstract syntax tree instead of raw text.

    16.3K
  1. 4

    fff

    11.1KdmtrKovalenko/fff · Rust

    A Rust file-search toolkit for humans and AI agents: typo-resistant path and content search ranked by how often you touch files, shipped as an SDK, an MCP server and a Neovim plugin. It powers search in opencode and nushell.

  2. 5

    reference

    10.9KFechin/reference · EJS

    Reference is a collection of quick-reference cheat sheets for developers, covering programming languages, Linux commands, databases, and keyboard shortcuts, all laid out in one clean, scannable site.

  3. 6

    Bash-Oneliner

    10.8Konceupon/Bash-Oneliner

    A curated collection of handy Bash one-liners and terminal tricks for data processing and Linux system maintenance, covering variables, grep, sed, awk, xargs, find, and more.

  4. 7

    Command-line-text-processing

    10.2Klearnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing · Shell

    A learning repository that teaches command-line text processing tools on Linux: grep, sed, awk, Perl one-liners, Ruby one-liners, sort, diff, and more, organized into chapters with examples and exercises.

  5. 8

    fsearch

    2.1Knoahdunnagan/fsearch · Rust

    FSearch is a whole-disk file search tool for macOS that finds any file by name in about a millisecond, tolerates typos, and can search inside file contents using an index.

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