Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

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Post by grahameb » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 3:38 PM UTC

Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
phiresky.github.io

Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

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Post by ssivark » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 4:08 PM UTC

I love that we’re seeing fast & flexible solutions for personal search.

I’ve recently been playing with Recoll for full-text-search on content. Since it indexes content up front, the search is pretty fast. It can also easily accommodate tag metadata on files.

It would be interesting to consider how ripgrep based tools can fit into generically broad “search your database of content” workflows (as opposed to remember or go through your file system paths).

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Post by diimdeep » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

Is anyone preferring some other search tool other than Spotlight on macOS ?

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Post by vmchale » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 4:19 PM UTC

Wonderful! pdfgrep is good but slow.

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Post by rjzzleep » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 4:20 PM UTC

ssivark wrote: post #2

I love that we’re seeing fast & flexible solutions for personal search. I’ve recently been playing with Recoll for full-text-search on content. Since it indexes content up front, the search is pretty fast. It can also easily accommodate tag metadata on files. It would be interesting to consider how ripgrep based tools can fit into generically broad “search your database of content” workflows (as opposed to remember o…

rga also indexes them when you search. To be honest I like that approach a lot more since it saves space and I generally know where I'm looking for things

    ls -sh ~/.cache/rga/
    total 336M
    336M data.mdb  4.0K lock.mdb

Re: Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

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Post by hobofan » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 4:22 PM UTC

Big fan of rga! I use it almost every day for the academic part of my life, when I want to know the location of some specific keywords in my lecture slides, books or papers I've been reading. Even for single ebooks, it is often more useful than the search in Acrobat Reader.