# The textproc/the_silver_searcher port

## the_silver_searcher-2.2.0p2 – code searching tool, with a focus on speed (ag)

## Description

    The silver searcher (also known as ag) is a fast text searching tool
    similar to grep or ack. It performs faster than ack, yet is also aware
    of ignore files of git and mercurial repositories and does not search
    files listed in ignore files. It further utilises threads and advanced
    features of PCRE to further improve performance.

    * Searching for literals (no regex) uses Boyer-Moore-Horspool strstr.
    * Files are mmap()ed instead of read into a buffer.
    * Regex searches use PCRE 8.21+'s JIT compiler.
    * Ag calls pcre_study() before executing the regex on a jillion files.
    * Instead of calling fnmatch() on every pattern in your ignore files,
      non-regex patterns are loaded into an array and binary searched.
    * Ag uses Pthreads to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and search
      files in parallel.

WWW: https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/

Only for arches
  aarch64 aarch64 alpha amd64 amd64 arm arm hppa i386 i386 mips64 mips64 mips64el mips64el powerpc powerpc powerpc64 powerpc64 riscv64 riscv64 sparc64
Categories:
  textproc

## Library dependencies

- archivers/xz
- devel/pcre

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=8,<9:lang/gcc/8

## Run dependencies