It's pretty old, and there are better/faster alternatives these days, such as ugrep.

What makes ugrep better for your use cases?

Livegrep https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep is my weapon of choice these days.

I always wonder why I want to run something I can accomplish within an IDE through another tool.

What's the advantage against running find in files from my editor?

If it's just searching through a single project inside an IDE, I agree with you.

But I have a Livegrep instance setup to index all 1000 repos into a single search space and it's still nigh instantaneous.

previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beyondgrep.com

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3835901 (ag/the_silver_searcher)

I looked at your comment history and I see you consistently make a single comment a year each year.

So, I am truly and genuinely honored that you have picked my post as your one single comment of 2022. Thank you :-)

They made two comments in 2018, and at least 4 in 2017.

:) Heh, I know! So tiny, right? I am so deeply honored to be part of such a tiny number of comments! :-)

The year is far from over

I know, they're really going all in, right? Spending their one comment of the year so early in it, on me. I'm doubly honored, and more so because the year is so early.