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Searching Through Files Tutorial

Remember Logs - Searching Through Files Tutorial Research

Earlier today I realised that vscode will only search through the contents of files I have open not all the files I have in the workspace, so I set out to resolve this issue.

ripgrep is the best tool for the job and turns out grep with the right flags works pretty well too.

I want to be able to search for the same phrases being used in different files. This requires some text processing. Time to learn some NLP.

I want to be able to get all domain names mentioned in a folder of markdown files.

I also want to be able to parse markdown files.

I want to extract all names mentioned in markdown files.

I want to extract all questions mentioned in markdown files.

I want to be able to easily parse and search PDF,DOCX and HTML files.

To be Continued....