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The Silver Searcher

Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per .hignore, .gitignore contents.

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  File Search
  3.  Code Search
  4.  Support for regular expressions

 Tags

  • grep

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The Silver Searcher information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    21 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

File ManagementOS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  27,147 Stars
  •  1,435 Forks
  •  561 Open Issues
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Top Positive Comment
WeiHua Liu
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It searches fast for the content of plain text files without an index and shows up the context of the results. It does not understand Chinese well.

What is The Silver Searcher?

Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per .hignore, .gitignore contents.