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Like many in this community, I maintain my notes in text files. I am looking for command line tools that I can use to index and search them.
Are there existing tools that do that? My google skills are are not producing good results.
Thanks
And while it's not it's primary purpose, Lucene comes with some CLI programs[2]. They are there mainly as a demo, but if you feel like writing some code you might be able to adapt that to your needs.
https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
There is a GUI, but it has a perfectly serviceable command-line interface as well. For example, this command lists all files with the exact phrase 'moved permanently':
recoll -t -l '"moved permanently"'
recoll -t -l "ext:py dir:Dropbox/ Import Logging"
AG: The Silver Searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
If I can piggyback on your question, my notes are in Word files and I sure wish I could grep those. I bet none of the answers at https://superuser.com/questions/70343/grep-in-microsoft-word work any more because Microsoft will keep changing the file format.
Ripgrep is good.
Why not grep? Are you saying you want full text search with like, stemming and result ranking? If I can piggyback on your question, my notes are in Word files and I sure wish I could grep those. I bet none of the answers at https://superuser.com/questions/70343/grep-in-microsoft-word work any more because Microsoft will keep changing the file format.
Full text search [1] is different from regular expression search.
grep -Ril "term"