Overview

femtogrep is a no-frills tool for finding text strings in files. It has exactly two redeeming features:

• Its default output is very human-readable
• It's very fast. close to 10x faster than grep for support queries. See Performance below.

Installation

Build from source

cargo install femtogrep

Usage

femtogrep --help
No frills portable string searching

Usage: femtogrep [OPTIONS] <EXPRESSION> [FILE_PATHS]...

Arguments:
  <EXPRESSION>     The expression to search for
  [FILE_PATHS]...  Paths to search within

Options:
  -r, --recursive  Search recursively
  -h, --help       Print help
  -V, --version    Print version

Performance

TODO: add benchmark results