GNU grep and ripgrep book
Learning and science
technical book
SHOW HN2019
182points
53comments
#222of 2,195 in 2019
Top 11%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
8 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Performance: 4 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstPricing: 2 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Helpful for beginners and a good reference
From 2 comments
I just finished reading the book, and I found it very helpful especially for beginner grep/ripgrep users. Thank you for making it available. I love the Exercise section. Are…
otterpro on HNEnjoyed the example chapter very much and just ordered via Gumroad. Thanks, already learned a few new things which will be handy in future.
cryo on HN
Useful content on an important topic
From 1 comment
You know you really don't need to tear down his work because you don't like the way it reads. Lots of the missing articles are around command line arguments, where the correct…
kirke on HN
Objections
Missing articles and needs a technical editor
From 2 comments
This should be run past an editor. The text is missing articles (a, an, the) all over. Something obviously got lost in translation. It's fine for a blog or comment on HN or…
iamnotacrook on HNPlease please please hire an editor. You have good content that needs editing.
rmbryan on HN
Free software authors should release book under free license
From 2 comments
If one writes about free software, using only free tools and free documentation, I'm disappointed when I see that the end product is not free. Just saying.
rambojazz on HNNo absolutely not. I wasn't talking of money, I was talking of free license. You used software released with a free license, and documentation available with a free license, to…
rambojazz on HN
Requests
Publish solutions to exercises
From 1 comment
I just finished reading the book, and I found it very helpful especially for beginner grep/ripgrep users. Thank you for making it available. I love the Exercise section. Are…
otterpro on HN
Questions
Why give the book away for free
From 1 comment
Why are you giving it away for free? Just curious, not trying to troll.
dingo_bat on HN
How to get technical editing and how much it costs
From 1 comment
Somewhat off topic, how would one go about getting good technical editing for something like a blog post or for a book like the OP? Is it expensive?
sa46 on HN
Alternatives named
ripgrep
From 1 comment
And ripgrep is quite a lot faster than GNU grep[1], especially if you need unicode support. [1] https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
opencl on HN
The Silver Searcher
From 1 comment
Did you try The Silver Searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher? :)
mihaitodor on HN