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global ripgrep ignore file

Revealed 2026-09-15, last edit 2026-09-16

I’ve been using this hack to have a global ripgrep ignore file for a bit:

in ~/bin/rg

#!/usr/bin/env bash

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

in ~/.config/rgignore:

.agent-shell*
.aider*
*.svg
.svn

janet.c
janet.h

# magit:
COMMIT_EDITMSG

*.vtl

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bonus

related: this og script I have:

#!/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 //;")" "$@"

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