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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 mosselman »

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…

But what if you aren't uploading your personal data into Google's privacy invasion system?

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

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Post by durnygbur »

jhoechtl wrote: post #130
durnygbur wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Why do they want it? Because every obersable event you trigger has to go into an add machinery

That would be the only reason for so awfully overengineering something - it's created by an advertising company.

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

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Post by diarrhea »

spappal wrote: post #74
ffpip wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're using Duckduckgo, just search ''!drive search-term'' or ''search term !drive'' or ''search !drive term'' More !operators here - https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Firefox supports custom search engines, the most bang for the buck custom search engine must be https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s with keyword being the letter d. Then you get all these 13000+ bangs without having to configure the custom search engines. E.g. write "d !drive term" in url bar. And "d !w hacker news" sends you directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

This would be amazing, but gives me '405 - Not Allowed - nginx', see also [0]. Strange.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625901

EDIT: That error occurred when going Right Click -> Add Keyword from the website. If setting the bookmark manually completely, it works.

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

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Post by ubercow13 »

pabs3 wrote: post #99
ghoomketu wrote: post #18

One a related note there is one program that I absolutely miss on Linux called everything (on windows). The closest I can find is mlocate but it does not have a GUI but more importantly it does not index my Windows or NTFS drives. Would appreciate any suggestions if someone knows something like 'everything' for Ubuntu.

BTW, mlocate is obsoleted by plocate, which is much faster and is actually maintained. https://plocate.sesse.net/

plocate depends on mlocate, it doesn't replace it

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

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Post by rurban »

tasuki wrote: post #80
simias wrote: post #51

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FZF + ripgrep is really killer for me. I don't even bother organizing my notes anymore, I just throw everything markdown files in a flat directory and then I have a script that uses FZF + ripgrep to search through it when I need it. I search by "last modified first" so unless I'm digging for something very old the results are instant. Code snippets, finances, TODO lists, cake recipes... It's all in there. I use the s…

About a year ago, I discovered it was very helpful for me to have git branches ordered by "recently modified first": From my `~/.gitconfig`: [alias] brt = "!git for-each-ref refs/heads --color=always --sort -committerdate --format='%(HEAD)%(color:reset);%(color:yellow)%(refname:short)%(color:reset);%(contents:subject);%(color:green)(%(committerdate:relative))%(color:blue); ' | column -t -s ';'" I always spent a lot o…

I prefer the version without column

    brt = "!git for-each-ref refs/heads --color=always --sort -committerdate --format='%(HEAD)%(color:reset) %(color:yellow)%(refname:short)%(color:reset) %(contents:subject) %(color:green)(%(committerdate:relative))%(color:blue) '"

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

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Post by sundarurfriend »

phiresky wrote: post #97
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…

Yeah, In my opinion poppler should be a dependency of rga in homebrew (since it's kinda useless without having the default adapters), but I don't maintain that package.

^ this is the developer of rga, in case it's not clear

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

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Post by kevincox »

scaladev wrote: post #125
jhardy54 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can (and should!) read the PKGBUILDs, they're very small and should always be manually inspected before install. The -bin suffix is an AUR convention to let you know that it's downloading a precompiled binary rather than building from source.

If we're talking about conventions, it's also an AUR convention to use -vcs suffix for source builds (like -git), for example: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=-git&outdat... https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=-hg&outdate...

I thought (but don't know if I ever actually say this documented) that -git and similar meant "latest git commit" not "build form a git repo".

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

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Post by kevincox »

spappal wrote: post #74
ffpip wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're using Duckduckgo, just search ''!drive search-term'' or ''search term !drive'' or ''search !drive term'' More !operators here - https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Firefox supports custom search engines, the most bang for the buck custom search engine must be https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s with keyword being the letter d. Then you get all these 13000+ bangs without having to configure the custom search engines. E.g. write "d !drive term" in url bar. And "d !w hacker news" sends you directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

Or just create a bookmark for https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=% and type `drive term` or whatever you call it without bouncing through DDG.

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

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Post by pdimitar »

one-punch wrote: post #93
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…

The integration with fzf seems nice. Any plans to integrate with skim, a Rust implementation of fzf? https://github.com/lotabout/skim

Seconding this, I love fzf but I love skim a little more.
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