Changing formatting of search results

[tpoliaw]

When using --no-heading, is there any way to add a space between the filename and the :##:?

At the moment it concatenates the file, the line number and the line with the search result meaning that double clicking to select a file selects the number as well so double-click → middle-click to type a file name isn't possible.

[BurntSushi]

No, sorry. If you want this, I'd recommend writing a script that post-processes the output.

[tpoliaw]

For anyone else having a similar issue, you can change how double-click selects words. For gnome-terminal, edit → General → Select-by-word-characters → remove : from textbox.

[sergeevabc]

Is there a native way (some switch) to concatenate, join, merge lines in the output?

Now:
Bat
Cat
Dog

Expected:
Bat Cat Dog

[BurntSushi]

No. ripgrep isn't designed to perform arbitrary output manipulations. You'll need to find some other tool.

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