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		jauntywundrkind 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Code usage limit hack How possible is it to make Claude Code use ripgrep instead (which obeys all .gitignore rules by default)?

villedespommes 4 months ago [–]

alias grep=rg ? Given that Claude Code is intelligent enough to use --help for cases where rg's flags aren't compatible with grep, it might just work well enough

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