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Don’t Underestimate Grep Based Code Scanning

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* ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift} - Andrew Gallant's Blog

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* The Silver Searcher

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* GitHub - mvdan/gogrep: Search for Go code using syntax trees

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* GitHub - BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

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* GitHub - azz/ast-grep: 🔍 Like grep, but more powerful than you can possibly imagine

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