Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
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HN comment orderDeveloper 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 custom extractors with the `--pre` flag, but by adding it here we can retain the benefits of the…
Ah, we've come full circle and reimplemented lesspipe[1][2]. [1]: https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/less/lesspipe.1.en.html [2]: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/23/2
I thought ripgrep already did this with ripgrep-all package? Isn't that the same thing as ripgrep?
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- Breakout years
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- Total points
- 978
- Total comments
- 207
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-16 | Show HN: Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gzFirst breakout | phiresky | 284 | 65 |
| 2020-12-02 | Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gzBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | angrygoat | 684 | 139 |
| 2022-03-11 | rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz | graderjs | 3 | 3 |
| 2024-05-25 | Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents (2022) | tosh | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-05-31 | rga: ripgrep, but also search PDFs, ebooks, Office docs, zip, tar.gz, etc (2019) | divbzero | 3 | 0 |