[INDOLOGY] Grep tool for searching on Mac

Fri Sep 17 21:39:02 UTC 2021

As a follow up to Tim's message:

http://prakrit.info/dh/search.html

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 4:34 PM Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Madhav,
>
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> In addition to the concise explanation in the link Arjuna sent, one might
> add a word about the grep’s general utility for Indologists.  With the
> already enormous and rapidly growing wealth of Sanskrit texts available in
> digital form from GRETIL and many other sources, one now has at one’s
> fingertips a powerful tool that acts like a global index to all that
> material, not just to certain words but to any string of characters or
> co-occurrence of multiple strings.  Moreover, your search will turn up not
> just text names and page or line numbers but a chunk of surrounding text
> for each hit, so you can see and compare the words “in situ.”
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> You need only keep all your Sanskrit digital texts in a folder (along with
> any number of nested subfolders) and direct the editor’s search engine to
> search that entire folder (or any given subfolder) for a given string
> occurring any all the files contained therein.
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> Of course you can use Finder on Mac to search folders or your entire drive
> for a particular string, but GREP allows searching using “regular
> expressions” (see
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit_14.0_User_Manual.pdf, ch. 8
> = pp. 189-222), to get maximally complete results despite variations in
> encoding, wording, spelling, sandhi,  etc., and find to multiple strings
> occurring in proximity to each but with a variable number of intervening
> characters, etc., etc.
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> Best,
> Tim
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> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Reply-To: *Arjuna S R <srarjunaa at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, September 17, 2021 at 7:15 PM
> *To: *Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>
> *Cc: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Grep tool for searching on Mac
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> Dear Sir,
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> This link will help you know about 'grep' -
> http://qpeng.org/computer/grep.htm
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> Thank you.
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> Regards,
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> Arjuna
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> On Fri, 17 Sept 2021 at 21:30, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> 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
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> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
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> [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:
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> 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:
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> https://www.examine64.com/
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> As I recall, it could even search binary files (e.g., docx, rtf, pdf),
> which BBEdit cannot do.
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> 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
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> On a Mac, BBEdit does "grep" multifile search.
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> Best wishes,
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> Sven
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> Am 17.09.2021 um 13:30 schrieb Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info>:
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> 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.
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> Harry Spier
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> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 7:19 AM Krishnaprasad G via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear all
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> Is there any readymade tool for using the Grep command for Sanskrit text
> string for multiple files?
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> Thanks
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