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The Silver Searcher

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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.

License model

  • Free • Open Source

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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

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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File Management, OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  26,639 Stars
  •  1,428 Forks
  •  562 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 16, 2024 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about The Silver Searcher, and it has gotten 14 likes

The Silver Searcher was added to AlternativeTo by hyOzd on Mar 27, 2016 and this page was last updated Jul 20, 2021.

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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.

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