Hi, the silver searcher and ripgrep are faster than grep for example.
-- Regards, Ville On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 6.36, Charlie Burnett <[email protected]> wrote: > Try pdfgrep and catdoc in ports/pkg for documents I’d say, you could > probably rig up a simple shell script to do it automatically... > unfortunately don’t know what program(s) would be faster than grep? > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:26 PM Oriol Demaria <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Exactly I do the same... but is falling short or too slow. :) > > > > --- > > Oriol Demaria > > 2FFED630C16E4FF8 > > > > On 18/09/2019 17:01, Charlie Burnett wrote: > > > I use Gnome as a DE but I still just do it through a terminal- > > > grep -R * “foo” > > > from whatever directory I wanna find the text in, replace foo with the > > > text > > > you want. > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:38 AM Oriol Demaria <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> So finding some code between large amounts of repos can be tricky. I > > >> don't use Gnome or KDE so I was wondering what do people use for this. > > >> Been looking at the ports and I see Xapian and others. Any advice on > > >> a nice setup? > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Oriol Demaria > > >> 2FFED630C16E4FF8 > > >> > > >> > > >
