File and Path Selection--binary | Enable binary file searching | -L | Follow symbolic links (not default) | -g <GLOB> | Include or exclude files and directories. Overrides any other ignore logic. | --iglob <GLOB> | Like -g but case-insensitive | --no-ignore | Don't respect any ignore files | -z | Search in compressed files | -t <T>
-T <T> | Only search for (-t) / exclude (-T) files of TYPE. Use --type-list to show all |
Globbing rules match .gitignore style. Precede glob with a ! to exclude.
There are several other options to not respect only certain ignore files: ‑‑no‑ignore‑dot, ‑‑no‑ignore‑global, ‑‑no‑ignore‑parent, and ‑‑no‑ignore‑vcs.
The -z option requires decompression binaries to be on the PATH. Consider instead the ripgrep-all variant. Matcher Selection-F | Treat pattern as literal string | -P | Use the PCRE2 regex engine | --auto-hybrid-regex | Choose regex engine based on features used in pattern |
Use the PCRE2 engine to support look-around or backreferences. | | Matching Control-s | Search case-sensitively | -S | Search case-insensitively if pattern is all lowercase, otherwise sensitively | --crlf | Treat CRLF as line terminator for $ | --pre <CMD> | Preprocess file with CMD before searching | --pre-glob
<GLOB> | Used to specify which files to preprocess | -e | Used to specify multiple patterns or protect patterns starting with "-" | -w,
--word-regexp | Only matches surrounded by word boundaries | -c | Count matched lines/file | --count-matches | Count matches per file |
Other Options--no-messages | Hide file open/read errs | --block-buffered | Flush on in-memory buffer size (default in pipeline or to file) | --line-buffered | Flush per line (default in terminal) | --encoding <ENC> | Encoding for reading files (e.g. utf-8, utf-16, ascii, windows-1252) | -j <NUM> | Approx threads to use | -[A|B|C] <num> | Show <num> lines after each match (A), before (B), or before and after (C) |
| | Output Options--color <WHEN> | auto, never, always, or ansi (emit ANSI escapes).
| --column | Show column numbers (1-based) for first match | -l
| Show only names of matching files | --files-without-
match | Show only names of non-matching files | --no-heading | File path at start of line instead of before group | -I
| Never print file name | -N | Suppress line numbers | -0, --null | Follow any file path with a NUL byte | --null-data | Use NUL as a line terminator instead of '\n' | -o | Print only match | --path-separator
<S> | Alt char for outputting path separator | -p, --pretty | Alias for ‑‑color always ‑‑heading ‑‑line‑number | -r <TEXT> | Replace match with <TEXT> in output (will never modify files) | --sort <SORTBY> | Sorts results ascending (--sortr for descending). Options: path, modified, accessed, created, none | --trim | Trim lead whitespace | -q | Quiet, no output |
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