grin, ack and rak comparison

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Having used ack for some time now, I find it much better for my development purposes than grep. But then I've heard about rak and grin. Has anyone used all three of them and can provide a comparison?

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '19 at 13:55

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For people still looking at this question:

At this point you should probably use ripgrep

answered Jun 19 '19 at 13:55

sumek

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '13 at 19:39

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As the rak website says, rak is a Ruby grep-like tool based on ack. grin is a Python grep-like tool also based on ack.

answered May 07 '13 at 19:39

mcandre

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '15 at 13:27

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You can use The Silver Searcher. Here is project page. It is really fast.

answered Jun 08 '15 at 13:27

Alex Bender

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grin, ack and rak comparison

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