The textproc/the_silver_searcher port
the_silver_searcher-2.2.0p2 – code searching tool, with a focus on speed (ag)
Description
The silver searcher (also known as ag) is a fast text searching tool
similar to grep or ack. It performs faster than ack, yet is also aware
of ignore files of git and mercurial repositories and does not search
files listed in ignore files. It further utilises threads and advanced
features of PCRE to further improve performance.
* Searching for literals (no regex) uses Boyer-Moore-Horspool strstr.
* Files are mmap()ed instead of read into a buffer.
* Regex searches use PCRE 8.21+'s JIT compiler.
* Ag calls pcre_study() before executing the regex on a jillion files.
* Instead of calling fnmatch() on every pattern in your ignore files,
non-regex patterns are loaded into an array and binary searched.
* Ag uses Pthreads to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and search
files in parallel.
WWW: https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/
- Only for arches
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aarch64
aarch64
alpha
amd64
amd64
arm
arm
hppa
i386
i386
mips64
mips64
mips64el
mips64el
powerpc
powerpc
powerpc64
powerpc64
riscv64
riscv64
sparc64
- Categories:
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textproc
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