I can't wait until it sends email in addition to searching for it.

Is that a reference to [1] "Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment"?

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

Are there any corollaries to Zawinski's Law?

Because lately when I develop something, it always gains either IRC or RSS capabilities at some point.

TBF unlike lesspipe this is an explicit invocation.

In fact, this might be why the author opted to create a separate utility rather than recommend setting --pre/--pre-glob straight into the ripgrep configuration file.

Thanks! This simplifies opening of compressed log files: I've been using zless but lesspipe makes it redundant.

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 it appears to spawn tools like poppler[1].

[1]: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/blob/master/src/adap...

kind 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), and of course lesspipe is only indirectly usable for recursive searching.

Also, most of it is completely safe Rust, so no out-of-bounds writes there :). The most dangerous part currently is probably the PDF parser.