What's the best way to ripgrep your entire filesystem? #2158
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Without noisy output like: |
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You can use But, it's generally not a great idea to just run a process that touches literally every file. Some files, for example, are virtual and are quite large. Try running, e.g., What I do personally is just create a Then you can do things like |
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I like this approach. Thank you 🙂 |
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You can use
--no-messages.But, it's generally not a great idea to just run a process that touches literally every file. Some files, for example, are virtual and are quite large. Try running, e.g.,
wc -c /proc/1/pagemapor something. (Well, maybe don't, because it might take quite a long time.)What I do personally is just create a
/.ignorefile and ignore the directories that I know are likely uninteresting (or even counter productive):Then you can do things like
rg foo /. Now, you're still quite likely to get errors, as there are probably lots of files in/varor even/etcthat require root permissions to even read. That's where-…