ugrep 7.3
Ultra fast grep with interactive query UI: search file systems, source code, text, binary files, archives (cpio/tar/pax/zip), compressed files (gz/Z/bz2/lzma/xz), documents, fuzzy search, and more. A faster, user-friendly replacement for GNU/BSD grep.
Recent Releases
7.303 Mar 2025 23:27
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lt;h1 What's new?. lt;ul . lt;li make options -i (--ignore-case) and -j (--smart-case) respect Unicode letter case conventions #467. lt;li usability improvements. lt;/ul .
7.1.311 Jan 2025 18:25
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Released 7.1.3
Minor update for #451 and year 2025.
7.1.201 Jan 2025 06:05
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Released 7.1.2
Implements #446 #447 #448.
7.1.106 Dec 2024 06:25
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Released 7.1.1
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Appease -Wshadow warnings in RE/flex library, TUI, and indexer.
7.1.030 Nov 2024 20:05
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Released 7.1
Add new features #442 and #443.
7.0.429 Nov 2024 20:05
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Released 7.0.4
Ugrep.exe TUI after #437 which caused some users to struggle with TUI due to Windows API peculiarities with different Windows OS.
7.0.329 Nov 2024 15:25
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Released 7.0.3
amp; problems with the TUI on Windows with ConEmu.
7.0.228 Nov 2024 03:45
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Released 7.0.2
Option -v with the anchor caused by the v7 updated --hexdump hex context support #428.
7.0.128 Nov 2024 02:25
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Released 7.0.1
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7.0.027 Nov 2024 23:25
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Released 7.0
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6.5.004 Nov 2024 07:05
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Released 6.5
Faster binary file checking with SIMD (SSE2/AVX2/NEON) UTF-8 validation #421.
New option `--context-separator=SEP`.
Options `-W` and `-X` now also apply to `--format` fields ` o` and ` O` to output hex.
Ugrep-indexer option `-z` to index zip/7z/tar/cpio/pax archives no longer indexes hidden directories and files stored in the archive.
Ugrep-indexer option `-z`, which was broken due to a code refactoring mistake in one line of code.
6.4.124 Sep 2024 02:05
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Released 6.4.1
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6.4.017 Sep 2024 02:05
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Released 6.4
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6.2.010 Jul 2024 03:45
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Released 6.2.0
Update #409.
6.1.005 Jun 2024 02:05
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Released 6.1
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5.1.412 Apr 2024 01:05
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Released 5.1.4
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5.1.306 Apr 2024 11:45
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Released 5.1.3
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5.1.009 Mar 2024 12:25
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Released 5.1.0
Implement improvement #360 and #174 to improve POSIX regex lazy quantifier matching in linear time using an updated advanced DFA transformation algorithm introduced in RE/flex in 2016.
5.0.017 Feb 2024 03:17
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Released 5.0
Faster: implement #288.
New feature #342.
New feature #349.
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4.5.215 Jan 2024 15:45
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Released 4.5.2
PR #344.
PR #343.
Zip search on 32 bit systems when option -M (or -t setting -M) is used.
4.5.111 Jan 2024 02:05
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Released 4.5.1 bzip3/7zip configure interference
Reported here: Genivia/ugrep-indexer#9.
4.5.006 Jan 2024 20:45
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Released 4.5.0
Add 7zip archive search with option -z, apply Unicode normalization to combining characters in regex patterns, improved TUI TAB directory navigation when searching from the FS root.
Updated ugrep.exe option -P to use PCRE2 10.42.
4.4.120 Dec 2023 11:25
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Released 4.4.1
Installation of completions #335.
4.3.507 Dec 2023 03:16
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Released 4.3.5
Updated option --index for accelerated index-based search, now also indexes and searches archives and compressed files with option -z.
New ugrep.exe option --index for accellerated index-based search on Windows.
Updated ugrep-indexer project accordingly to support archive/compressed file indexing with a new ugrep-indexer.exe version for Windows.
Updated MacOS moar-pager #328.
Faster search with -ABC context options #329.
4.3.425 Nov 2023 03:16
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Released 4.3.4
ug no longer quits with an error message when no default.ugrep config file was found.
Allow config file importing in config files using config=FILE (does not permit recursive imports) see also #320.
The output of + separators by no longer using them #317.
-v with -ABC context #319.
Configuration file option arguments that may got lost and causes option argument errors in some cases after parsing a config file, such as colors=.
4.3.316 Nov 2023 07:05
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Released 4.3.3
Added brotli compressed files search #312.
Added bzip3 compressed files search #311.
Updated option --pretty to accept a WHEN argument 'never', 'always', 'auto'.
Improved TUI screen blanking response when a new search starts.
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4.3.204 Nov 2023 03:25
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Released 4.3.2
Double short option - enables both --files --bool (a single - enables --bool) for convenience.
Updated thread pool scheduling and execution with thread affinity and priority settings.
Improvements and for minor (mostly cosmetic).
4.0.325 Aug 2023 08:05
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Released 4.0.3
Add --delay=DELAY option to specify a default query TUI delay e.g. in the.ugrep config file with delay=DELAY; a GNU grep option -m compatibility.
4.0.019 Aug 2023 12:05
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Released 4.0.0
Improved and optimized internals: faster async output, removed redundant binary file checking, removed "rest line" buffering, enlarged input buffer, faster '' pattern matching, removed redundant color escape code output, -Q=DELAY instead of -QDELAY so -Q2 is -Q -2 as expected, and --index search.
3.12.609 Aug 2023 10:25
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Released 3.12.6
New option -S (--dereference-files) to follow symbolic lines only to files, not to directories, when using -r for recursive search; updated default recursive search to strictly perform -r.
3.12.506 Aug 2023 01:45
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Released 3.12.5
New --iglob and --glob-ignore-case options.
3.12.210 Jul 2023 14:05
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Released 3.12.2
Speed improvements to further speed up common search patterns; ug and ug+ now enable --pretty by default.
3.12.004 Jun 2023 13:25
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Released 3.12.0 with new ug+ and ugrep+ commands
New ug+ and ugrep+ commands to search pdfs, documents and image metadata; improved --filter option; speed improvements.
3.11.208 Apr 2023 03:16
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Released 3.11.2
to improve --hyperlink and other minor output improvements.
3.11.103 Apr 2023 03:16
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Released 3.11.1
Smarter interactive navigation in the TUI when option --tree is used with options -l or -c, enabling the navigation keys CTRL-S (jump forward), CTRL-W jump backward), TAB (chdir into directory and save query state), SHIFT-TAB (chdir.. and restore query state), CTRL-Y (view file).
3.11.019 Mar 2023 03:20
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Released 3.11.0
Updated --format output when used with -o to also enable -u to show all matches, improved --json, --xml, --csv output when used with -o, updated -o output with headings for every match, updated --replace output field m to output the number of matches sequentially, new --format and --replace field M outputs number of matching lines.
3.10.001 Mar 2023 14:45
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Released 3.10.0
New option --tree to output directory trees of files for options -l, -L and -c. Updated --pretty to enable --tree when output is sent to a terminal. Disable with --no-tree to output a traditional grep flat list.
3.9.515 Jan 2023 03:16
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Released 3.9.5
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3.9.405 Jan 2023 03:16
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Released 3.9.4
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3.9.330 Dec 2022 06:25
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Released 3.9.3
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3.9.116 Aug 2022 07:05
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Released 3.9.1
And optimize dir/file symlink follow logic to avoid calling lstat/stat whenever possible.
3.8.329 Jun 2022 03:15
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Released 3.8.3
Search tiny lz4 files; skip empty zip files.
3.8.211 Jun 2022 03:15
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Released 3.8.2
Compilation error w/o libbz2.
3.8.107 Jun 2022 03:15
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Released 3.8.1
Bz2 cutting off decompression too soon amp;.
3.8.031 May 2022 03:15
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Released 3.8.0
New option combo -o with -ABC context; option -o with -b or -k shows results on separate lines; new option --width; short ug command now sorts by name by default; query TUI ALT- and ALT- keys switched; new + format field used by updated --only-line-number option; updated man pages.
3.7.1009 May 2022 03:15
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Released 3.7.10
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3.7.908 Apr 2022 06:45
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Released 3.7.9
Additional --stats results with total lines searched and matched and time elapsed.
3.7.702 Apr 2022 03:16
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Released 3.7.7
New complementary options --min-depth, --max-depth, --min-line and --max-line which are added for consistency with the updated options --min-count and max-count. Updated the --min-count option, which can now be combined with any other option except with -v (--invert-match). Updated option -K (--range) to take a MAX argument instead of a FIRST argument for consistency with other min/max options. Recursive searching sysfd, such as /proc and /sys, no longer blocks on special files/devices. colorization of option -v when used with context options -A, -B and -C. option -r when combined with argument - (read standard input), which does both, like GNU grep. Updated --stats reporting and other minor improvements.
3.7.618 Mar 2022 03:22
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Released 3.7.6
New option --min-count.
3.7.514 Mar 2022 07:25
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Released 3.7.5
to skip searching sysfd files such as located in /proc and /sys.
3.7.320 Feb 2022 03:15
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Released 3.7.3
Updated --hexdump to ; minor user experience improvements.
3.7.208 Feb 2022 03:19
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Released 3.7.2
New --hexdump options; --ignore-files improvement; speed improvements.
3.5.006 Jan 2022 07:45
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Released 3.5.0 new option --zmax for -z to search compressed/archived
files stored within archive files.
3.3.1109 Dec 2021 14:45
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Released 3.3.11
Clean up; column -k speedup by on-demand computation.
3.3.423 Jun 2021 07:45
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Released 3.3.4
Option -P performance improvements; Windows ugrep.exe -P Unicode re-enabled by ing a PCRE2 config problem.
3.3.104 Jun 2021 12:45
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Released v3.3.1
Improved query UI option -Q: Tab/Shift-Tab navigation, CTRL-Y file viewing with new option --view, and CTRL-X/CTRL-R bookmarking.
3.329 May 2021 03:17
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Released 3.3.0
Added --hyperlink; improved option -P and other improvements.
3.2.213 May 2021 11:05
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Released 3.2.2
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3.205 May 2021 15:05
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Released 3.2
Added support for zstd-compressed file search with option -z.
3.1.1501 May 2021 09:05
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Released 3.1.15
Recursive search crash and related #6 #7.
3.1.1227 Apr 2021 06:45
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Released 3.1.12
Added format field NAME # to output named capturing groups and NUM1 NAME1 NUM2 NAME2... # to output the first capturing group that matched by num or name; option --bool improvements.
3.1.1024 Mar 2021 03:17
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Released 3.1.10
Minor --bool and --glob improvements; MinGW portability.
3.1.928 Feb 2021 01:05
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Released 3.1.9
an when placing options --bool, -G, -F, -w, -x at the end of the command line.
3.0.106 Oct 2020 14:45
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Released 3.0.1
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Released 3.0.1.
3.0.003 Oct 2020 00:45
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Released 3.0
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Released 3.0.
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Released 3.0.
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Released 3.0.
2.5.622 Sep 2020 09:45
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Released 2.5.6 - query UI usability improvements and additions
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Released 2.5.6 - query UI usability improvements and additions.
2.5.505 Sep 2020 03:15
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Released 2.5.5 - updated build.sh and tests
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Released 2.5.5 - build script improvements.
2.5.402 Sep 2020 03:15
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Vkey: build on hurd-i386
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Add Haiku install instructions to README.
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Released 2.5.4 - missing lz4 macro.
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Released 2.5.4 - automake.
Released 2.5.4 - automake.
Released 2.5.4 - updated Dockerfile.
2.5.319 Aug 2020 14:25
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Released 2.5.3 - new format fields a and p; incremental stdin searc
h; updated --gitignore-files.
2.5.215 Aug 2020 06:25
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Updated Homebrew formula to v2.5.1
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Change macOS install instructions to built-in formula.
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Updated README.
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Released 2.5.2 - missing zlib compilation.
2.5.111 Aug 2020 03:15
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Updated Homebrew formula to v2.5.0
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Updated README.
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Released 2.5.1 - query UI improvements new option --not.
2.5.028 Jul 2020 05:45
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Updated Homebrew formula to v2.4.1
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Updated README.
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Updated README.
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Released 2.5.0 - new query UI commands.
2.4.115 Jul 2020 03:15
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Updated Homebrew formula to v2.4.0
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Released 2.4.1 - support lz4-compressed files.
2.4.011 Jul 2020 12:45
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Released 2.4.0 - added ug command amp; ugrep --config to use config file
s; --help WHAT ; improved AVX2 detection for optimization.
2.3.230 Jun 2020 12:45
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2.3.122 Jun 2020 10:45
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Updated Homebrew formula to v2.2.1
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Updated README.
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Compilation on musl libc.
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Released 2.3.0 - context matching enhancements.
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Updated Hombrew formula to v2.3.0.
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Released 2.3.1 - context matching enhancements and -G.
2.2.111 Jun 2020 05:45
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Improved README
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Improved README.
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Improved README.
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Improved README.
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Updated Homebrew formula to v2.2.0.
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Improved README.
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Improved README.
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Improved README.
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Improved README.
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Improved README.
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Improved README.
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Improved README.
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Spelling: preceeds.
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Minor improvements.
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Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep.
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Improved README.
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Updated README.
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Updated README.
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Updated README.
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Updated README.
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Released 2.2.1 - improved query UI and fuzzy matching.
2.2.005 Jun 2020 16:56
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