RipGrep (rg) Cheat Sheet

ripgrep-cheat-sheet.md

Command	Description
rg pattern	Search pattern in current dir recursively
rg pattern utils.py	Search in a single file utils.py
rg pattern src/	Search in dir src/ recursively
rg '^We' test.txt	Regex searching support (lines starting with We)
rg -F '(test)'	Search literally, i.e., without using regular expression
rg -i pattern	Search pattern and ignore case (case-insensitive search)
rg -S pattern	Smart case search (match case of pattern)
rg pattern -g '*.py'	File globbing (search in certain files), can be used multiple times
rg pattern -g '!*.py'	Negative file globing (do not search in certain files)
rg pattern -g '!dir1/'	Exclude dir1
rg pattern -t py	Search pattern in Python file. To list the supported filetypes, use rg --type-list
rg pattern -T py	Do not search pattern in Python file type
rg -l pattern	Only show files containing pattern (Do not show the lines)
rg --files-without-match pattern	Show files not containing pattern
rg -v pattern	Inverse search (search lines not containing pattern)
rg -w pattern	Search surrounded by word boundaries.