Any sysadmin worth their salt turns on extended regular expressions (with `-E` or `egrep`), which Ripgrep's regex syntax is a superset of, more or less.

> and incompatible with grep syntax, which makes it useless to most system admins

I wonder how much the above reflects a dated and/or stereotyped view? Who here works with "sysadmins"? I mean... devops-all-the-places now, right? :P Share your experiences?: I'm curious.

If I were a sysadmin, I'd have some kind of "sanity check" script if I had to manage a fleet of disparate systems. I'd use it automatically when I logon to a system. Checking things like: Linux vs BSD, what tools are installed, load, any weirdnesses, etc. Heck, maybe even create aliases that abstract over all of it, as much as possible. Maybe copy over a helix binary for editing too, if that was kosher.