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What is `rg`? I like its output better than grep's.



It's one of a number of greplike tools out there. Here's a comparison chart:

https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/

If you're looking for other alternative shell tools, take a look at https://altbox.dev/



ripgrep. It's a bit faster and automatically ignores files in .gitignore etc. Very handy.




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