Rust Grep

Open-source Rust projects categorized as Grep

Top 22 Rust Grep Projects

  1. ripgrep

    ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

    Project mention: My Dev Tool List 2025 | dev.to | 2025-12-02

    ripgrep fast grep replacement

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  3. ast-grep

    ⚡A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust

    Project mention: AST-Grep | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-10
  4. television

    A very fast, portable and hackable fuzzy finder for the terminal.

    Project mention: Trick to find commands in the terminal quickly | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-16

    I use television (https://github.com/alexpasmantier/television) with shell integration

    so basically I end up doing ctrl-r, then fuzzy find the command and run it

  5. amber

    A code search / replace tool (by dalance)

  6. srgn

    A grep-like tool which understands source code syntax and allows for manipulation in addition to search

  7. sig

    Interactive grep (for streaming) (by ynqa)

  8. teip

    Masking tape to help commands "do one thing well"

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  10. hgrep

    Grep with human-friendly search results

  11. ruplacer

    Find and replace text in source files

  12. fltr

    Like grep but for natural language questions. Based on Mistral 7B or Mixtral 8x7B.

  13. grip-grab

    Hold on tight

  14. bogrep

    Grep your bookmarks

  15. zeitgrep

    sorted grep

    Project mention: Show HN: Zeitgrep – ripgrep, but sorted by edit stats in Git history | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-19
  16. grepq

    quickly filter fastq files by matching sequences to a set of regex patterns

    Project mention: Grepq: Quickly Filter Fastq Files | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-14
  17. fgr

    Find & GRep program

  18. perg

    Grep implementation in rust.

  19. parsm

    Parsm is a structured data processor written in Rust

    Project mention: Parsm – Parse 'Em – An 'Everything' Parser, Sedder, Awkker, Grokker, Grepper | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-08
  20. mamegrep

    An interactive terminal interface for `$ git grep` to easily edit search patterns and view results

    Project mention: Show HN: Mamegrep – TUI tool for `$ Git grep` | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-25
  21. grab

    An attempt at making a simple clone of grep(1) using Rust. (by selectiveduplicate)

  22. jstream

    Index JSON values by their paths in a document for easy grepping (by ckampfe)

  23. titan

    TITAN, Tiny and Intuitive Text Analysis tool for Rust-based patterns (by dpouris)

  24. SaaSHub

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

Rust Grep discussion

Rust Grep related posts

  • A somewhat faster, more lightweight, ripgrep-inspired alternative

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2024
  • A somewhat faster, more lightweight, ripgrep-inspired alternative

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2024
  • Search Multi-language Documents in ast-grep

    7 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2024
  • amber, a code search & replace tool

    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2024
  • Code Search Is Hard

    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024
  • Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep

    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023
  • Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift}

    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Grep projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 ripgrep 58,189
2 ast-grep 11,708
3 television 3,920
4 amber 924
5 srgn 869
6 sig 719
7 teip 591
8 hgrep 504
9 ruplacer 485
10 fltr 386
11 so_stupid_search 175
12 grip-grab 128
13 bogrep 104
14 zeitgrep 60
15 grepq 56
16 fgr 19
17 perg 14
18 parsm 11
19 mamegrep 7
20 grab 6
21 jstream 3
22 titan 2

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