How to install ripgrep

ripgrep is recursive search tool that respects ignore files and is quick on large trees. The project is developed in the open and released under its own licence.

About the project

ripgrep is recursive search tool that respects ignore files and is quick on large trees. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

The maintainers own the project. They choose release timing, publish announcements, and write the documentation themselves. Nothing about that process is controlled from here.

How releases reach a machine

There is no single universal route here. Maintainers usually describe the supported options themselves, and the choice varies between platforms and between releases.

Check compatibility first

Look at the supported versions before anything else. Projects narrow their platform range over time, and older systems can be dropped without much warning.

A quick sanity check

A version query afterwards is usually enough to confirm the environment picked it up. If the result is unexpected, the usual causes are a stale path entry or a version manager resolving to a different release.

A note about this domain

This is a notes-only domain. Projects remain documented by their own authors.