[Noob] How to search urls?

[rieje]

Noob question: how to search urls?

rg 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqMYnvkgqGd' /tmp/file

doesn't produce but replacing with grep does. I understand rg is not supposed to replace grep and also am not suggesting this is a bug.

Thank you.

[BurntSushi]

grep uses BREs by default, where things like ? aren't treated as special meta characters by default. Instead, you have to do \?. In contrast, ripgrep is closer to grep -E by default, where I imagine you'd get the same result as ripgrep here.

The correct thing to do here, whether it's grep or ripgrep, is to use the -F/--fixed-literals flag. That will treat the pattern as literal text completely.