How To Install ugrep on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ugrep on Ubuntu.
What is ugrep
ugrep is:
Universal grep: ultra fast searcher of file systems, text and binary files, source code, archives, compressed files, documents, and more.
The main features include:
- Written in clean and efficient C++11, built for speed
- Ultra fast with new match algorithms beating grep, ripgrep, silver searcher, hyperscan, etc.
- Multi-threaded search using high-performance lock-free job queue stealing
- Multi-threaded task-parallel decompression and search
- Optimized pattern matching (AVX, SSE2, ARM NEON/AArch64)
- Optimized asynchronous IO for efficient concurrent searching
- Thoroughly tested (includes over 1000 test cases)
- Compatible with the standard GNU/BSD grep command-line options
- Comprehensive how-to tutorial for beginners to advanced users
- Interactive query UI to enter search patterns
- Select files to search by file types, filename suffix, and “magic bytes”
- Search archives (cpio, jar, tar, pax, zip)
- Search compressed files (zip, gz, Z, bz, bz2, lzma, xz)
- Search pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlxs, and more using filters
- Search binary files and display hexdumps with binary pattern matches
- Search UTF-encoded files with Unicode pattern matches (by default)
- Search files encoded in ISO-8859-1 thru 16, CP 437, CP 850, MAC, KOI8, etc.
- Search files excluding files specified by .gitignore etc.
- Search patterns across newlines, matching multiple lines at once
- Search patterns excluding negative patterns (“match this but not that”)
- Includes predefined regex patterns to search source code, XML, JSON, HTML
- Output results in CSV, JSON, XML, and user-specified formats
- Sort matching files by name, size, and time
- Portable, compiles and runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, etc.
There are three methods to install ugrep on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ugrep Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ugrep using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ugrep
Install ugrep Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ugrep using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ugrep
Install ugrep Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ugrep using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ugrep
How To Uninstall ugrep on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the ugrep package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ugrep
Uninstall ugrep And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ugrep and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ugrep
Remove ugrep Configurations and Data
To remove ugrep configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ugrep
Remove ugrep configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ugrep configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ugrep
Dependencies
ugrep have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ugrep package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.