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The Silver Searcher

A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed.

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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⚫︎ Command line interfaceThe Silver Searcher either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
⚫︎ LightweightThe Silver Searcher consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.

Supported Languages

  • English

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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.

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ultra fast, very nice, need only the search in office document, ...

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File Management • OS & Utilities

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  • grep
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about The Silver Searcher, and it has gotten 12 likes

  • Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in 
    C iconC
  • 17 alternatives listed

GitHub repository

  •  24,178 Stars
  •  1,357 Forks
  •  530 Open Issues
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