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Same, and I'm the author of ripgrep! Unless the script is one that I wrote for myself in ~/bin, I use grep and find and standard tooling in shell scripts.

The only exception is if there is a specific need for something ripgrep does. Usually it's for speed, but speed isn't always needed.




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