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@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ $ rg fast README.md 129: optimizations to make searching very fast. ``` +(**Note:** If you see an error message from ripgrep saying that it didn't +search any files, then re-run ripgrep with the `--debug` flag. One likely cause +of this is that you have a `*` rule in a `$HOME/.gitignore` file.) + So what happened here? ripgrep read the contents of `README.md`, and for each line that contained `fast`, ripgrep printed it to your terminal. ripgrep also included the line number for each line by default. If your terminal supports |