ugrep

faster grep with an interactive query UI

Description

Universal grep: ultra fast searcher of file systems, text and binary files, source code, archives, compressed files, documents, and more.

The main features include:

- Written in clean and efficient C++11, built for speed

- Ultra fast with new match algorithms beating grep, ripgrep, silver

searcher, hyperscan, etc.

- Multi-threaded search using high-performance lock-free job queue stealing

- Multi-threaded task-parallel decompression and search

- Optimized pattern matching (AVX, SSE2, ARM NEON/AArch64)

- Optimized asynchronous IO for efficient concurrent searching

- Thoroughly tested (includes over 1000 test cases)

- Compatible with the standard GNU/BSD grep command-line options

- Comprehensive how-to tutorial for beginners to advanced users

- Interactive query UI to enter search patterns

- Select files to search by file types, filename suffix, and "magic bytes"

- Search archives (cpio, jar, tar, pax, zip)

- Search compressed files (zip, gz, Z, bz, bz2, lzma, xz)

- Search pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlxs, and more using filters

- Search binary files and display hexdumps with binary pattern matches

- Search UTF-encoded files with Unicode pattern matches (by default)

- Search files encoded in ISO-8859-1 thru 16, CP 437, CP 850, MAC, KOI8, etc.

- Search files excluding files specified by .gitignore etc.

- Search patterns across newlines, matching multiple lines at once

- Search patterns excluding negative patterns ("match this but not that")

- Includes predefined regex patterns to search source code, XML, JSON, HTML

- Output results in CSV, JSON, XML, and user-specified formats

- Sort matching files by name, size, and time

- Portable, compiles and runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, etc.

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