Highlights
- Search recursively for a regex pattern using Intel Hyperscan.
- When a git repository is detected, the repository index is searched using libgit2.
- Similar to
grep,ripgrep,ugrep,The Silver Searcheretc. - C++17, Multi-threading, SIMD.
- USAGE GUIDE
- Implementation notes here.
- Not cross-platform. Tested in Linux.
Performance
The following tests compare the performance of hypergrep against:
- ripgrep
v13.0.0 - ag 2.2.0 (The Silver Searcher)
v2.2.0 - ugrep
v3.11.2
System Details
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Processor | 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900KF @ 3.50GHz 3.50 GHz |
| 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 |
| OS | Ubuntu 20.04 LTS |
| C++ Compiler | g++ (Ubuntu 11.1.0-1ubuntu1-20.04) 11.1.0 |
Vcpkg Installed Libraries
| 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).
| Regex | Line Count | ag | ugrep | ripgrep | hypergrep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Count number of times Holmes did somethinghgrep -c 'Holmes did \w' |
27 | n/a | 1.820 | 1.022 | 0.696 |
Literal with Regex Suffixhgrep -nw 'Sherlock [A-Z]\w+' en.txt |
7882 | n/a | 1.812 | 1.509 | 0.803 |
Simple Literalhgrep -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 Literalshgrep -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 stringhgrep -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 (after running make defconfig && make -j8). The commit used is f1fcb.
| Regex | Line Count | ag | ugrep | ripgrep | hypergrep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Simple Literalhgrep -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 Suffixhgrep -nw '[A-Z]+_SUSPEND' |
536 | 3.080 | 1.452 | 0.148 | 0.143 |
Alternation of four literalshgrep -nw '(ERR_SYS|PME_TURN_OFF|LINK_REQ_RST|CFG_BME_EVT)' |
16 | 3.085 | 0.410 | 0.153 | 0.146 |
Unicode Greekhgrep -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. The commit used is 3865b.
| Regex | Line Count | ag | ugrep | ripgrep | hypergrep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Function/Struct/Enum declaration followed by a valid identifier and opening parenthesishgrep -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 digitshgrep -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 identifierhgrep -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 URLhgrep "(https?|ftp)://[^\s/$.?#].[^\s]*" |
13682 | 4.597 | 2.894 | 0.305 | 0.171 |
Any IPv4 IP addresshgrep -w "(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}" |
12643 | 4.727 | 2.340 | 0.324 | 0.166 |
Any E-mail addresshgrep -w "[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}" |
47509 | 5.477 | 37.209 | 0.494 | 0.220 |
Any valid date MM/DD/YYYYhgrep "(0[1-9]|1[0-2])/(0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])/(19|20)\d{2}" |
116 | 4.239 | 1.827 | 0.251 | 0.163 |
Count the number of HEX valueshgrep -cw "(?:0x)?[0-9A-Fa-f]+" |
68042 | 5.765 | 28.691 | 1.439 | 0.611 |
Search any C/C++ for a literalhgrep --filter "\.(c|cpp|h|hpp)$" test |
7355 | n/a | 0.505 | 0.118 | 0.079 |
Build
Install Dependencies with vcpkg
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
cd vcpkg
./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
./vcpkg install concurrentqueue fmt argparse libgit2 hyperscanBuild 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=<path_to_vcpkg>/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake ..
make
If cmake is newer than 3.19
Use the release preset:
export VCPKG_ROOT=<path_to_vcpkg>
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.