[INDOLOGY] Grep tool for searching on Mac

Fri Sep 17 22:22:32 UTC 2021

Thanks everyone for informing me about the use and benefits of GREP. One
last question. Is GREP a downloadable software that will work on Mac?

Madhav

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]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 2:39 PM Andrew Ollett <andrew.ollett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As a follow up to Tim's message:
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> http://prakrit.info/dh/search.html
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> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 4:34 PM Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu> wrote:
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>> 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,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>>
>> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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/
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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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>> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info>
>> <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of INDOLOGY
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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,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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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