Technical I Thought We Lost at 3 GB — Turns Out We’d Won (As Long as the Cache Is Cold)
A grep on 3 GB belongs to ripgrep if the file is in the cache. If it is not, it belongs to uvp. In the previou…
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Technical Picking the one place to beat ripgrep — read 1/9 of the bytes, then hand the result from the CLI to the GUI
Update (17 Sep 2026): I thought we lost at 3 GB — turns out we'd won (as long as the cache is cold) This artic…
Tech uvp vs rg and sed, 81 checks — the script’s run log (3 GB / 10 GB / 50 GB)
[Update, 16 October 2026] Speed today — the 3 GB second-run items uvp used to lose are now wins or on par The…
Technical Keep it as .uwvz instead of gzip — 1/9 the size, searchable in 7 seconds, and free to restore
This is a follow-up on where to keep logs you have finished reading. gzip makes them small, but searching mean…
Technical We shipped a uvp command — the same answers as ripgrep, 7× faster at 10 GB. And at 3 GB too, if the cache is cold
UwView Pro now has a uvp command you can call from the terminal. The free build has uvf. When you bolt a CLI o…
Comparison Five Questions Against 258 GB and 4.5 Billion Lines — Where grep Loses to a GUI
Ask one file five questions in a row. Then narrow the result, tally it, replace something, and write it out. M…
Comparison grep, uniq -c and sed in a GUI — the CLI-to-UwView-Pro Cheat Sheet
becomes hit-line export. It also states what is missing: awk arithmetic and tail -f"> [Update, 16 October 2026…
Comparison uniq -c Joins the GUI — Ranking the Top Values in 10,967 Hits, in 22 Milliseconds
After the NOT filter (grep -v) and whole-word match (grep -w), part 3 of the CLI series. This time it's not a…
Comparison grep -w Joins the GUI — Whole-Word Match Picks 7 Rows out of 892 Million
Last time it was grep -v (the NOT filter). Part 2 of the CLI series: grep -w — whole-word match. Substring sea…
Comparison I Put grep -v into a GUI — Stackable NOT Filters in Drill-Down Search, from 10,967 Hits to 16
The reality of log investigation is less about finding and more about discarding. Search for ERROR, get tens o…