October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
444 pages
10h 37m
English
ripgrep—as we mentioned in the previous recipe (Extracting text using regular expressions)—is a popular grep engine that walks through files to find anything that matches the provided regular expression rules. For that, it's not only necessary to compile and match a regular expression to massive amounts of text, but also to find these texts. To get to and open these files, we need to walk the directory trees of the filesystem. Let's find out how to do that in Rust.
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