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I need to try ag.

I usually use rg, which is way faster than grep for searching many repositories at once.

But one of my tasks involves searching things in a single XML file of hundreds megabytes, or even several gigabytes, and for this, grep is way faster than rg apparently.

So under the right conditions, grep is actually quite fast and you may be missing out if you never try using it.



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