| Port variant | std |
| Summary | Code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster |
| BROKEN | |
| Package version | 2.2.0_2 |
| Homepage | https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/ |
| Keywords | textproc |
| Maintainer | nobody |
| License | APACHE20 |
| Other variants | There are no other variants. |
| Ravenports | Buildsheet | History |
| Ravensource | Port Directory | History |
| Last modified | 11 AUG 2024, 22:51:45 UTC |
| Port created | 14 AUG 2020, 18:08:36 UTC |
| set | Subpackage description undefined (port maintainer error). |
| primary | The Silver Searcher A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed. What's so great about Ag? * It is an order of magnitude faster than ack. * It ignores file patterns from your .gitignore and .hgignore. * If there are files in your source repo you don't want to search, just add their patterns to a .ignore file. (*cough* *.min.js *cough*) * The command name is 33% shorter than ack, and all keys are on home row! Ag is quite stable now. Most changes are new features, minor bug fixes, or performance improvements. It's much faster than Ack in benchmarks: ack test_blah ~/code/ 104.66s user 4.82s system 99% cpu 1:50.03 total ag test_blah ~/code/ 4.67s user 4.58s system 286% cpu 3.227 total Ack and Ag found the same results, but Ag was 34x faster (3.2 seconds vs 110 seconds). My ~/code directory is about 8GB. Thanks to git/hg/ignore, Ag only searched 700MB of that. How is it so fast? * Ag uses Pthreads to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and search files in parallel. * Files are mmap()ed instead of read into a buffer. * Literal string searching uses Boyer-Moore strstr. * Regex searching uses PCRE's JIT compiler (if Ag is built with PCRE >=8.21). * Ag calls pcre_study() before executing the same regex on every file. * Instead of calling fnmatch() on every pattern in your ignore files, non-regex patterns are loaded into arrays and binary searched. |
| man | This is the man page subpackage of the the_silver_searcher:std port. |
| Build (only) |
pkgconf:primary:std autoconf:primary:std automake:primary:std libtool:primary:std zlib:dev:std pcre:dev:std xz:dev:std |
| Build and Runtime |
zlib:primary:std pcre:primary:std xz:primary:std |
| main | mirror://GITHUB/ggreer:the_silver_searcher:2.2.0 |
| No other ports depend on this one. |