[INDOLOGY] Grep tool for searching on Mac

Peter Wyzlic pwyzlic at uni-bonn.de
Fri Sep 17 15:20:40 UTC 2021


Dear all,

just for the record: MacOS has also a classical command line grep. So, 
technically speaking, you do not necessarily need an extra program. It 
requires plain text files, however.

All the best
Peter Wyzlic

Am 17.09.2021 um 14:21 schrieb Lubin, Tim:
>
> BBEdit is most common for grepping on Mac, but some other editors do 
> it, e.g., Oxygen xml editor.
>
> Before I switched to Mac, I used *Examine64* for grep searches:
>
> https://www.examine64.com/ <https://www.examine64.com/>
>
> As I recall, it could even search binary files (e.g., docx, rtf, pdf), 
> which BBEdit cannot do.
>
> Best,
>
> Tim Lubin
>
> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of 
> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Reply-To: *Sven Sellmer <sellmers at gmx.de>
> *Date: *Friday, September 17, 2021 at 1:33 PM
> *To: *Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Grep tool for searching on Mac
>
> On a Mac, BBEdit does "grep" multifile search.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sven
>
>
>
>     Am 17.09.2021 um 13:30 schrieb Harry Spier via INDOLOGY
>     <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>:
>
>
>     Most good text editors have both a "find in files" feature that
>     allows you to search in multiple files or whole directories at a
>     time and also have a "regular expressions" feature that allow you
>     to do what you call "grep" searchs.  I use notepad++ on windows
>     but I can't give you the name of a text editor for Mac as I'm not
>     a Mac user. The Muktabodha digital library searchable etext
>     library has that feature built in, but only for use on its
>     searchable etext collection.
>
>     Harry Spier
>
>     On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 7:19 AM Krishnaprasad G via INDOLOGY
>     <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Dear all
>
>         Is there any readymade tool for using the Grep command for
>         Sanskrit text string for multiple files?
>
>         Thanks
>
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