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Recursively search directories for a regex pattern
https://github.com/p-ranav/hypergrep

blazing-fast command-line-tool cpp17 directory-traversal filesystem git grep hyperscan intel libgit2 lock-free-queue mmap multithreading pattern-matching recursive regex search simd utf8

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Recursively search directories for a regex pattern

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/p-ranav/hypergrep
Owner: p-ranav
License: mit
Created: 2023-04-18T09:53:16.000Z (about 1 year ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2023-06-09T22:52:17.000Z (about 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2024-01-26T17:04:04.785Z (5 months ago)
Topics: blazing-fast, command-line-tool, cpp17, directory-traversal, filesystem, git, grep, hyperscan, intel, libgit2, lock-free-queue, mmap, multithreading, pattern-matching, recursive, regex, search, simd, utf8
Language: C++
Homepage:
Size: 9.31 MB
Stars: 154
Watchers: 5
Forks: 3
Open Issues: 3
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

Lists

cli-apps - hypergrep - Recursively search directories for a regex pattern using Intel Hypescan. (<a name="text-search"></a>Text search (alternatives to grep))
my-awesome-github-stars - p-ranav/hypergrep - Recursively search directories for a regex pattern (C++)
awesome-cli-apps - hypergrep - Recursively search directories for a regex pattern using Intel Hypescan. (<a name="text-search"></a>Text search (alternatives to grep))

README

        


  



## Highlights

* Search recursively for a regex pattern using [Intel Hyperscan](https://github.com/intel/hyperscan).

* When a git repository is detected, the repository index is searched using [libgit2](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2).

* Similar to `grep`, `ripgrep`, `ugrep`, `The Silver Searcher` etc.

* C++17, Multi-threading, SIMD.

* [USAGE GUIDE](doc/USAGE.md)

* Implementation notes [here](doc/NOTES.md).

* Not cross-platform. Tested in Linux. 



  



## Performance

The following tests compare the performance of `hypergrep` against:

* [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/) `v13.0.0`

* [ag 2.2.0 (The Silver Searcher)](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) `v2.2.0`

* [ugrep](https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep) `v3.11.2`

### System Details

| Type            | Value |

|:--------------- |:---- |

| Processor       | [11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900KF @ 3.50GHz   3.50 GHz](https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/212321/intel-core-i911900kf-processor-16m-cache-up-to-5-30-ghz.html) |

| Instruction Set Extensions | Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512 |

| Installed RAM   | 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable) |

| SSD             | [ADATA SX8200PNP](https://www.adata.com/upload/downloadfile/Datasheet_XPG%20SX8200%20Pro_EN_20181017.pdf) |

| OS              | Ubuntu 20.04 LTS |

| C++ Compiler    | g++ (Ubuntu 11.1.0-1ubuntu1-20.04) 11.1.0 |

### Vcpkg Installed Libraries

[vcpkg](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg) commit: [662dbb5](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/commit/662dbb50e63af15baa2909b7eac5b1b87e86a0aa)

| Library | Version | 

|:---|:---|

| **argparse** | 2.9 |

| **concurrentqueue** | 1.0.3 |

| **fmt** | 10.0.0 |

| **hyperscan** | 5.4.2 |

| **libgit2** | 1.6.4 |

### Single Large File Search: `OpenSubtitles.raw.en.txt`

 The following searches are performed on a single large file cached in memory (~13GB, [`OpenSubtitles.raw.en.gz`](http://opus.nlpl.eu/download.php?f=OpenSubtitles/v2018/mono/OpenSubtitles.raw.en.gz)).

| Regex | Line Count | ag | ugrep | ripgrep | hypergrep |

| :---| ---:| ---:| ---:| ---:| ---:|

| Count number of times Holmes did something
`hgrep -c 'Holmes did \w'` | 27 | n/a | 1.820 | 1.022 | **0.696**  |

| Literal with Regex Suffix
`hgrep -nw 'Sherlock [A-Z]\w+' en.txt` | 7882 | n/a | 1.812 | 1.509 | **0.803** |

| Simple Literal
`hgrep -nw 'Sherlock Holmes' en.txt` | 7653 | 15.764 | 1.888 | 1.524 | **0.658** |

| Simple Literal (case insensitive)
`hgrep -inw 'Sherlock Holmes' en.txt` | 7871 | 15.599 | 6.945 | 2.162 | **0.650** |

| Alternation of Literals
`hgrep -n 'Sherlock Holmes\|John Watson\|Irene Adler\|Inspector Lestrade\|Professor Moriarty' en.txt` | 10078 | n/a | 6.886 | 1.836 | **0.689** |

| Alternation of Literals (case insensitive)
`hgrep -in 'Sherlock Holmes\|John Watson\|Irene Adler\|Inspector Lestrade\|Professor Moriarty' en.txt` | 10333 | n/a | 7.029 | 3.940 | **0.770** |

| Words surrounding a literal string
`hgrep -n '\w+[\x20]+Holmes[\x20]+\w+' en.txt` | 5020 | n/a | 6m 11s | 1.523 | **0.638** |

### Git Repository Search: `torvalds/linux`

The following searches are performed on the entire [Linux kernel source tree](https://github.com/torvalds/linux) (after running `make defconfig && make -j8`). The commit used is [f1fcb](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f1fcbaa18b28dec10281551dfe6ed3a3ed80e3d6).

| Regex | Line Count | ag | ugrep | ripgrep | hypergrep |

| :---| ---:| ---:| ---:| ---:| ---:|

| Simple Literal
`hgrep -nw 'PM_RESUME'` | 9 | 2.807 | 0.316 | 0.147 | 0.140 |

| Simple Literal (case insensitive)
`hgrep -niw 'PM_RESUME'` | 39 | 2.904 | 0.435 | 0.149 | 0.141 |

| Regex with Literal Suffix
`hgrep -nw '[A-Z]+_SUSPEND'` | 536 | 3.080 | 1.452 | 0.148 | 0.143 |

| Alternation of four literals
`hgrep -nw '(ERR_SYS\|PME_TURN_OFF\|LINK_REQ_RST\|CFG_BME_EVT)'` | 16 | 3.085 | 0.410 | 0.153 | 0.146 |

| Unicode Greek
`hgrep -n '\p{Greek}'` | 111 | 3.762 | 0.484 | 0.345 | **0.146** |

### Git Repository Search: `apple/swift`

The following searches are performed on the entire [Apple Swift source tree](https://github.com/apple/swift). The commit used is [3865b](https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/3865b5de6f2f56043e21895f65bd0d873e004ed9).

| Regex | Line Count | ag | ugrep | ripgrep | hypergrep |

| :---| ---:| ---:| ---:| ---:| ---:|

| Function/Struct/Enum declaration followed by a valid identifier and opening parenthesis
`hgrep -n '(func\|struct\|enum)\s+[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*\s*\('` | 59026 | 1.148 | 0.954 | 0.154 | **0.090** |

| Words starting with alphabetic characters followed by at least 2 digits
`hgrep -nw '[A-Za-z]+\d{2,}'` | 127858 | 1.169 | 1.238 | 0.156 | **0.095** |

| Workd starting with Uppercase letter, followed by alpha-numeric chars and/or underscores 
`hgrep -nw '[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*'` | 2012372 | 3.131 | 2.598 | 0.550 | **0.482** |

| Guard let statement followed by valid identifier
`hgrep -n 'guard\s+let\s+[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*\s*=\s*\w+'` | 839 | 0.828 | 0.174 | 0.054 | 0.047 |

### Directory Search: `/usr`

The following searches are performed on the `/usr` directory. 

| Regex | Line Count | ag | ugrep | ripgrep | hypergrep |

| :---| ---:| ---:| ---:| ---:| ---:|

| Any HTTPS or FTP URL
`hgrep "(https?\|ftp)://[^\s/$.?#].[^\s]*"` | 13682 | 4.597 | 2.894 | 0.305 | **0.171** |

| Any IPv4 IP address
`hgrep -w "(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}"` | 12643 | 4.727 | 2.340 | 0.324 | **0.166** |

| Any E-mail address
`hgrep -w "[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}"` | 47509 | 5.477 | 37.209 | 0.494 | **0.220** |

| Any valid date `MM/DD/YYYY`
`hgrep "(0[1-9]\|1[0-2])/(0[1-9]\|[12]\d\|3[01])/(19\|20)\d{2}"` | 116 | 4.239 | 1.827 | 0.251 | **0.163** |

| Count the number of HEX values
`hgrep -cw "(?:0x)?[0-9A-Fa-f]+"` | 68042 | 5.765 | 28.691 | 1.439 | **0.611** |

| Search any C/C++ for a literal
`hgrep --filter "\.(c\|cpp\|h\|hpp)$" test` | 7355 | n/a | 0.505 | 0.118 | **0.079** | 

## Build

### Install Dependencies with `vcpkg`

```bash

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg

cd vcpkg

./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh

./vcpkg install concurrentqueue fmt argparse libgit2 hyperscan

```

### Build `hypergrep` using `cmake` and `vcpkg`

#### Clone the repository

```

git clone https://github.com/p-ranav/hypergrep

cd hypergrep

```

#### If `cmake` is older than `3.19`

```

mkdir build

cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake ..

make

```

#### If `cmake` is newer than `3.19`

Use the `release` preset:

```

export VCPKG_ROOT=

cmake -B build -S . --preset release

cmake --build build

```

#### Binary Portability

To build the binary for x86_64 portability, invoke cmake with `-DBUILD_PORTABLE=on` option. This will use `-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic` and `-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++`, and link the C++ standard library and GCC runtime statically into the binary, reducing dependencies on the target system.