#+title: global ripgrep ignore file
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#+pubdate: <2026-09-15>
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I've been using this hack to have a global ripgrep ignore file for a bit:

in ~~/bin/rg~

#+begin_src sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash

/bin/rg --ignore-file "${HOME}/.config/rgignore" "$@"
#+end_src

in ~~/.config/rgignore~:

#+begin_src conf
.agent-shell*
.aider*
*.svg
.svn

janet.c
janet.h

# magit:
COMMIT_EDITMSG

*.vtl
#+end_src

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related: this ~og~ script I have:

#+begin_src sh
#!/bin/sh
# call the original version of some thing in $PATH
og=$1
shift
"$(type -a "$og" | tail -n 1 | sed -E "s/${og}//;s/ is //;")" "$@"
#+end_src

Which lets the ~~/bin/rg~ invocation become ~og rg~ instead of a full path.

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