[INDOLOGY] Grep tool for searching on Mac

[Krishnaprasad G]

Thanks everyone for your replies. This helps a lot.


On Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 9:30 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> To confess my ignorance, what exactly does GREP do? I use a MacBook. What
> would I need GREP for? Please enlighten me.
>
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
>
> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
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> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 8:20 AM Peter Wyzlic via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> 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/
>>
>> As I recall, it could even search binary files (e.g., docx, rtf, pdf),
>> which BBEdit cannot do.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Tim Lubin
>>
>>
>>
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>> *Reply-To: *Sven Sellmer <sellmers at gmx.de> <sellmers at gmx.de>
>> *Date: *Friday, September 17, 2021 at 1:33 PM
>> *To: *Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com> <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
>> *Cc: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>> <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>:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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> 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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