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

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

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Post by alexruf »

burntsushi wrote: post #91
alexruf wrote: post #88

Idea behind Rga is cool. Anyway, I tried it on Mac and installed via Homebrew. The formula already says it depends on ripgrep (that's fine since I have ripgrep already installed and use it regularly). I still was surprised when I executed Rga for the first time and got an error message that 'pdftotext' was not found. Since pdftotext has been officially discontinued, I am not sure if I want to install an old version j…

> Since pdftotext has been officially discontinued Do you have a link for that? That's news to me.

brew info pdftotext

https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/pdftotext#default

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

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Post by stjohnswarts »

awinter-py wrote: post #46

thanks but it's way faster to have my stuff in G drive that way I can open a browser tab, wait 5 seconds for it to load, locate the new screen location of the search bar, click it, wait for javascript to finish loading so I can click the search bar, click it for real this time, mistype because there's some kind of contenteditable event jank, wait 5 seconds for my results to come up, fix the typo, and just have my res…

A lot of us don't want our stuff on G-drive for privacy and security concerns. Tools like this are valuable to us. It's an old problem and there are plenty indexers out there, this more real-time scan is more than welcome to join the bunch of course.

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

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Post by aembleton »

phiresky wrote: post #75

Developer of the tool here :) Glad to see it posted here, I still actively use it myself. Also check out the fzf integration in the README: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/blob/master/doc/rga-... Currently the main branch is undergoing a refactor to add support for having custom extractors (calling out to other tools), and more flexible chains of extractors. Ripgrep itself has functionality integrated to call…

AUR has both a ripgrep-all [1] and ripgrep-all-bin [2] package. Both were addded by you. The bin package has a newer version. What is the difference between the two?

1. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ripgrep-all/

2. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ripgrep-all-bin

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

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Post by hiq »

burntsushi wrote: post #39
hiq wrote: post #20

It would be nice to have a direct comparison with ugrep. In the case of rg the benchmarks are already enough to switch. Why should I use rga instead of ugrep?

I've called the ugrep benchmarks into question, and I elaborated on it here (and this includes a frustrating exchange between myself and the ugrep author): https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i6pfb2/ugrep_new_ultr... I've also re-run my original set of benchmarks[1] with ugrep included: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite... [1] - https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

Just to be clear, I meant that I had switched to ripgrep because its speed was convincing enough on its own (so I did not even extra features to switch).

I'm currently not using any of ugrep or rga, although I have used pdfgrep in the past. It'd be nice for casual users like me to know more about why I should use rga over ugrep (or vice-versa).

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

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Post by CamperBob2 »

edm0nd wrote: post #89

Big fan of ripgrep. Use it on Windows to search through 100s of GBs of data really quickly.

Do you have a version that works with DOS pipes? I have to resort to an older grep version if I need to do something like:

    dir *.c* | rg somesubstringinfilename

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

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Post by 0df8dkdf »

durnygbur wrote: post #63
awinter-py wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not being sarcastic if god wanted me to access my files in less than 15 seconds, they wouldn't have commanded google to package the search bar as a separate JS bundle that only gets downloaded when you focus the search bar I'm no frontend dev but I know a thing or two about HTML + there's no built-in way to input text into a box -- this is the best we can do and we'll just have to wait for 5G + moore's law to solve t…

Laugh all you want but try looking for a Fullstack/Frontend role in today's job market. What do they want? AnGuLaRr with oBsErVaBlEs! Why do they want it? Because Google can't be wrong.

I would rather slit my wrist than using AnGuLaRr. Google is notorious for over engineering problems, great for search, horrible for UI/UX stuff. Keep it simple stupid.

Death to SPA (Angular, React) Long live SPA (Mithril, Vue)

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

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Post by 0df8dkdf »

awinter-py wrote: post #46

thanks but it's way faster to have my stuff in G drive that way I can open a browser tab, wait 5 seconds for it to load, locate the new screen location of the search bar, click it, wait for javascript to finish loading so I can click the search bar, click it for real this time, mistype because there's some kind of contenteditable event jank, wait 5 seconds for my results to come up, fix the typo, and just have my res…

I'm not sure on how many level this statement is off. Sure, if its file where you don't care about your privacy, the kind of files you don't mind posting on facebook, then sure put in G Drive. But don't think for a second that those files in the cloud is yours. It is NOT! Especially when we are talking about FANNG here. You will have NO legal protection!

Stop using cloud, usb is fine.

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

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Post by kovek »

simonw wrote: post #73
kovek wrote: post #28

How could I use Rga to search my browsing history?

Your browser history (if you use Chrome or Firefox at least) is stored in a SQLite database. It looks like rga can handle SQLite out of the box, so just making sure your history .db file is visible to rga may be all you need. You can also use my Datasette tool to get a web UI against your history, see https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/getting_started.html#usi...

Are there tools to store the all history webpage contents to be viewed later?
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