Powershell, ripgrep

software

Powershell: not totally awful! I’m not ready to give up on Bash yet: even though my Mac is stuck on an ancient version (I can’t use brew ;_;) the autocomplete remains better. I recently ‘ported’ all my grep shortcuts to ripgrep, and in the process set up a Powershell prompt to match my Bash prompt, it even shows the execution time of the previous command correctly. Ripgrep is fast, even on Windows, and even on Windows fileshares it is usable. The only thing I struggle with now it properly configuring rg --pre with pdftotext. The latter requires some extra dashes, but I can’t pass in a .sh as per rg docs, since it’s Powershell.