Ripgrep (rg) and Silver Searcher (ag) both perform text searches, and both are created to be a better and faster `grep`.
Performance-wise, both appear to be similar, although benchmarks indicate that Ripgrep is faster in many cases (<
With the rising popularity of Ripgrep, it has been integrated into MS Visual Code (Visual Studio Code March 2017).
Feature-wise, both seem very similar. Command are also very similar as well.
Ripgrep:
rg "foo" -g "*.cpp"
Silver Searcher:
ag -G '\.cpp$' 'foo'
To limit search to a directory, add path to the command:
ag "bar" /etc/
rg "bar" /etc/