Configuration is in ~/.ripgreprc
-i # case insensitive search
-s # case sensitive search
-z # search in compressed files
-t TYPE # only search files matching TYPE
-T TYPE # do not search files matching TYPE
--type-list # show all supported file types
-A NUM # show NUM lines after each match
-B NUM # show NUM lines before each match
-C NUM # show NUM lines before and after each match
-l # only print the paths with at least one match
-g GLOB # include or exclude files
--files # print each file that would be searched
-c # only show the count of matching lines for each file
-o # print only matched parts of a line
-I # never print the file path with the matched lines
-N # suppress line numbers
-w # only show matches surrounded by word boundaries
-M NUM # don't print lines longer than this limit
-v # invert match
--no-ignore # also search in git-ignored files
--hidden, -. # search also in hidden files
--no-hidden # do not search in hidden files
-L, --follow # follow symbolic links
rg -i foo
rg 'foo|bar|baz' -woNI | sort | uniq -c # search for foo, bar or baz and count
rg -- -foo # search for -foo
rg -t html -t css foobar # search in .html and .css files only for the word foobar
rg -g *.css --files # print list of all .css files
fd -e css -X rg color # print all colors in all css files
rg "category-id=\".+?\"" catalog.xml -oN # print only matched pattern
echo 'apple\norange\nbanana\nkiwi' | rg --multiline --multiline-dotall 'orange.*kiwi'
list files containing pattern in current directory and subdirectories:
rg -l pattern
grep -rl pattern .