# BurntSushi/ripgrep

> A command-line tool for recursively searching files with regular expressions, respecting .gitignore rules by default and skipping hidden and binary files. Written in Rust, it runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and is positioned as a fast replacement for grep, ack and The Silver Searcher.

- Magnitude: 3.2 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 69,026 total · +18 stars measured 2026-10-11, 00:40–11:05 UTC, ≈ 36 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · License: Unlicense · Created: 2016-03-11 · Last push: 2026-08-04
- GitHub: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/BurntSushi/ripgrep

## Useful for

- Find all occurrences of a string in a project's sources without scanning node_modules or .git
- Restrict the search to specific file types, e.g. rg -tpy for Python files
- Search a large log file or dump with match highlighting and line numbers

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-11 (UTC), 00:40–11:05: 69008 → 69026 stars (+18). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +36 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- About 199 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5,060
- Issues and pull requests: 3,000
- Watchers: 318
- Average over the last week: 35 per day
- Usual pace: 30 per day
- Latest release: 15.2.0 (2026-07-15)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 26, 32, 28, 30, 32, 58, 31, 11, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-28 2.9, 09-29 3.1, 09-30 2.9, 10-01 2.3, 10-02 2.8, 10-03 3.0, 10-04 3.0, 10-05 3.0, 10-06 3.2, 10-07 3.0, 10-08 3.1, 10-09 3.3, 10-10 3.8, 10-11 3.3

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-11 11:14 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.