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Having used ack for some time now, I find it much better for my development purposes than grep. But then I've heard about rak and grin. Has anyone used all three of them and can provide a comparison?

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  • related question (contains links to similar posts on SO): http://superuser.com/questions/39384/best-grep-like-tool – quack quixote Feb 04 '10 at 15:29
  • that's the place where I've learned about grin and rake. Still it doesn't compare these tools. I want to know whether it's worth to make an effort and try out grin and rak. – sumek Feb 05 '10 at 20:24
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    I guess the answer is settled for now. Use the silver searcher aka ag. It's fast! and has sane defaults. – sumek Sep 02 '14 at 09:38
  • Related: [Software to search through your own libraries of source code?](http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/13190/3474) – kenorb Jun 08 '15 at 13:35

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For people still looking at this question:

At this point you should probably use ripgrep

sumek
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As the rak website says, rak is a Ruby grep-like tool based on ack. grin is a Python grep-like tool also based on ack.

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You can use The Silver Searcher. Here is project page. It is really fast.

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