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I don't know if you ever used IRC to get help on technical issues, but I've done that a lot, and going back to figure out what the solution was to a particularl
by pmoriarty 3y ago
I don't know if you ever used IRC to get help on technical issues, but I've done that a lot, and going back to figure out what the solution was to a particularly thorny technical problem that someone told me about years ago has been something I've done multiple times.
- op00to 3y agoYeah, let’s just spend 30 minutes grepping the IRC logs!
- redog 3y agotry ripgrep. You're welcome
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoWhy would it take 30 minutes? Maybe in the worst case, but most of the time it would maybe take a couple minutes to find the right thing to search for. And grep is pretty fast.
- simoncion 3y agoAnd even if it _did_ take 30 minutes, that's _way_ better than blowing a day, week, or even more time rediscovering the information contained in the log.
- Biganon 3y agoIf you have the logs as text files, then there's literally nothing you could be doing better. Want to index them? Turn them into a database? Use fuzzy search? Grepping? Everything is possible. Therefore I don't understand your sarcasm. What's the alternative? If you find Discord's search feature good, you could implement it on top of the text logs.
- 6510 3y agoThere are fancy gui's to search in text files even on linux.
- bandrami 3y agos/minutes/seconds/, but... yes? Let's just grep the IRC logs?