This is a cli tool for searching files (like grep) that does not use the OS kernel to read files, but reads your disks directly. It is practically useless, but insanely cool . this is just ~1.5k lines of C code that: requires sudo only when reading a raw device node (e.g. /dev/rdisk* ); searching an image file needs no elevated permissions requires disabling SIP protection to run on the main macOS disk can miss some recent file writes (will require a manual sync call) might not be able to search trees on a highly volatile file system while other system components are writing files in the OS works only for file systems implemented manually in this project but at the same time directly reads blocks from your disks bypasses the VFS / buffered read() path, instead it pread s the block device directly progressively faster than ripgrep (the more files you need to search - the faster it is than ripgrep) can search unmounted volumes - it just parses binary blobs detects and skips binary files spreads the load across…