ripgrep Cheat Sheet

--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.

-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.

-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

--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` )

More encodings here.

--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

ripgrep Cheat Sheet by njones