search.md

Search

By default, Rview performs a fuzzy search on filepaths. The fuzziness is achieved by splitting filepaths and search inputs to normalized words and generating prefixes of various length for these words.

But sometimes you need more advanced tools to get relevant results. Fortunately, Rview has something to offer:

• "<exact match>": Double quotes allow to search for exact matches.
• -"<exclude>": The minus before double quotes allows to exclude results that match the content inside these double quotes.

Examples

Files:

• animals/cute cat.jpeg
• animals/cat jumps.mp4
• animals/caterpillar.png
• animals/Cat & Dog play.mkv
• dogmas/catalog.zip

Search Requests:

• caterpillar - search for filenames that have the same prefixes as caterpillar (cat, cate, cater, ...). Results:
  • animals/caterpillar.png
  • animals/Cat & Dog play.mkv
  • animals/cat jumps.mp4
  • animals/cute cat.jpeg
  • dogmas/catalog.zip
• "caterpillar" - search for filenames that have exactly caterpillar. Results:
  • animals/caterpillar.png
• cat dog - search for filenames that have the same prefixes as both cat and dog. Results:
  • animals/Cat & Dog play.mkv
  • dogmas/catalog.zip
• cat dog -"zip" - search for filenames that have the same prefixes as both cat and dog, but don't have exactly zip. Results:
  • animals/Cat & Dog play.mkv
• -"dog" -"png" -"jumps" - search for filenames that don't have exactly dog, png and jumps. Results:
  • animals/cute cat.jpeg
• dog "/cat" -"mkv" - search for filenames that have the same prefixes as dog, have exactly /cat and don't have exactly mkv. Results:
  • dogmas/catalog.zip

Examples are generated by github.com/ShoshinNikita/rview/search.ExampleSearch.