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#114of 2,195 in 2019
Top 6%of 2019 by points
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5 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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Fast and useful for searching inside archives and documents
From 2 comments
That's a pretty cool feature indeed, I had missed it (and now I understand the need for a separate binary with archive handling & streaming logic). Thanks for correcting.
ronjouch on HNkind of.. though this tool does a lot more (caching, recursing into archives and extracting all text) and is a lot faster (for the file types it can parse, lesspipe knows more),…
phiresky on HN
Objections
Windows support missing
From 1 comment
No Windows support? :\ Also, suffers from the exact same problem I see pretty much every text search tool suffer: doesn't support other UTF encodings like UTF-16, meaning you'll…
mehrdadn on HN
UTF-16 without BOM not handled
From 2 comments
No Windows support? :\ Also, suffers from the exact same problem I see pretty much every text search tool suffer: doesn't support other UTF encodings like UTF-16, meaning you'll…
mehrdadn on HN> Also, suffers from the exact same problem I see pretty much every text search tool suffer: doesn't support other UTF encodings like UTF-16, meaning you'll miss files. Did you…
burntsushi on HN
Security risk from parsing untrusted PDFs
From 2 comments
You're welcome, but also check out that second link: I'd be careful about running lesspipe on untrusted inputs. It looks like this tool might have the same problems, given that…
woodruffw on HNI see threads recommending software doing full-text indexing of pdfs descending into archives. I remember that a few years ago there were some security vulnerabilities in exactly…
hamilyon2 on HN
Requests
Docker image
From 2 comments
This is something I've needed for a long time! Has anyone docker-ized it yet? Edit: unsure why I'm getting downvoted here - docker is an extremely convenient way to run things on…
mmastrac on HNWhy wouldn't you want to dockerize it? It has a huge number of potential dependencies (pandoc, pdftotext, etc). Getting all those working on my Unraid storage server for…
mmastrac on HN
Windows packaging
From 1 comment
Windows support should be fairly trivial, the main problem is packaging it up and that travis doesn't like Windows. > doesn't support other UTF encodings like UTF-16 UTF-16…
phiresky on HN
Questions
How it handles zip bombs
From 1 comment
How well does it handle zip bombs and 42.zip?
orthoxerox on HN
Alternatives named
lesspipe
From 1 comment
Ah, we've come full circle and reimplemented lesspipe[1][2]. [1]: https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/less/lesspipe.1.en.html [2]:…
woodruffw on HN
Recoll
From 1 comment
There's Recoll: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ I haven't used it, so I'm not sure how fast it is, but I've seen it recommended several times.
jamessb on HN
Baloo
From 1 comment
I believe Baloo (a KDE project) does exactly that (indexing local content). There are different tools you can then use to search for indexed data: I assume KRunner will be the…
Arkanosis on HN
GNOME Tracker
From 1 comment
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker Most gnome based distros have that available, if not enabled by default. Not sure what kind of support it has for different file types.
singlow on HN