grep

Technical Guide

What We Took From klogg, ripgrep, grep and PowerGREP — The Features UwView Borrowed From Other Tools, and the Ones We Deliberately Left Out (First Light to Full Spectrum)

UwView is built out of a long record of losing to other tools. It lost to klogg on a feature checklist, lost t…
2026.10.22
Technical Guide
Technical Guide

Searching Compressed Logs Against ugrep, ripgrep and zgrep — On Par the First Time, 0.11–0.12 s in Every Format the Second

[Update 2026-10-04] In v1.7.3.6.9, five plain files are on par too (uvf slightly ahead) "Searching several pla…
2026.09.29
Technical Guide
Technical Guide

Our CLI Gave Three Different Counts Where ripgrep Gave One — Part 5: No Default Cap, and grep’s Exit Codes for “Incomplete”

The count changed every time. Same file, same command, same machine. Three runs in a row: 356,940 hits, then 3…
2026.09.25
Technical Guide
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…
2026.09.18
Technical
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…
2026.09.17
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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…
2026.09.15
Tech
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…
2026.09.14
Technical
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…
2026.09.13
Comparison
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…
2026.09.12
Comparison
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…
2026.09.11
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