ugrep
brew install ugrepUltra fast grep with query UI, fuzzy search, archive search, and more
License: BSD-3-Clause
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/ugrep.json
Formula code: ugrep.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 7.8.5 |
Depends on:
| brotli | 1.2.1 | Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google |
| lz4 | 1.11.1 | Extremely Fast Compression algorithm |
| pcre2 | 10.49 | Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API |
| xz | 5.8.4 | General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio |
| zstd | 1.5.7 | Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm |
Uses from macOS: bzip2
Binaries:
ug,
ug+,
ugrep,
ugrep+,
ugrep-indexer
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 16,331 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 263,235 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 4,140 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 3.9× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-12T00:53:29Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-13 to 2026-11-12. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 4,140 | 8,061 | 43,676 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Installs on Request | 4,140 | 8,061 | 43,674 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Build Errors | 1 |