Your question brings to light some of the deep flexibility current shells allow with a very terse syntax. At least from Nu you can accept and process the outpu

Your question brings to light some of the deep flexibility current shells allow with a very terse syntax. At least from Nu you can accept and process the output of your script. As an aside, your one liner is having to process every file twice, even ones that have already been excluded by the other ripgrep... something like this should be more performant: rg -il $2 $(rg -il -t java -t go $1)