kellegous/ogle — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-08-10 · repo last pushed 2014-07-21
Search through hundreds of text files to find every mention of a term with surrounding context.
Build an index of a document archive and quickly look up relevant passages by keyword.
Check your own writing for specific references across a large collection of files.
| kellegous/ogle | 0verflowme/cloudflared | 0verflowme/pulumi-vultr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Go | Go | Go |
| Last pushed | 2014-07-21 | 2024-10-19 | 2022-12-26 |
| Maintenance | Dormant | Stale | Dormant |
| Setup difficulty | moderate | moderate | hard |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 |
| Audience | developer | developer | ops devops |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Minimal documentation means you need comfort with command-line tools and Go to build and run the program.
Ogle is a tool that searches through large amounts of text to find information. It works like a search engine for documents you already have, letting you type in words or phrases and quickly getting back the most relevant passages. The program runs as a command-line utility, meaning you interact with it by typing commands rather than clicking buttons. Behind the scenes, it builds an index of your documents, essentially a structured map that lets it jump straight to relevant content instead of scanning every word from scratch each time you search. The project is written in Go, which helps it run fast and handle sizable collections of text without slowing down. People who would find this useful include researchers digging through archives, writers checking their own work for specific references, or anyone managing a large library of text files who needs more than a basic keyword search. If you have hundreds of documents and need to find every mention of a term along with the surrounding context, this kind of tool saves you from opening each file individually. The README doesn't go into much detail about installation, setup, or advanced features, so you would likely need some comfort with command-line tools to get started. The project appears to be a personal or experimental effort rather than a polished product with extensive documentation.
Ogle is a command-line search tool that indexes large collections of text documents so you can quickly find relevant passages by keyword. It is written in Go and built for fast lookups across sizable document libraries.
Mainly Go. The stack also includes Go, CLI.
Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2014-07-21).
The license is not mentioned in the README, so it is unclear what permissions apply.
Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
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