Wrapper for searching for multiple substrings?

[rieje]

I often find myself searching for media file names in the following way:

rg 'cat.*videos . ; rg videos.*cat . where I'm interested in searching the substrings videos and cat in any order. I might have multiple substrings.

Can rg/regex help do that in any way? Otherwise I have to write a wrapper script to do that but my posix/bash/programming is not great. I guess it would be something like this:

./rg-substrings cat videos where it loops through each argument and appends a .* that gets added to the resulting regex string for rg. But the harder part is looping through all iterations of the orders of the substring.

[BurntSushi]

If I'm understanding you correctly, then the standard way to do this is with shell pipelines: rg cat | rg videos.

[rieje]

I see, it's not possible to show the colors of both cat and videos that get matched if done that way, i.e. only videos, right?

Also to be sure logical AND for patterns is not supported?

I currently have in a shell script:

regex=""

for f in "$@"; do
  regex+="$f.*"
done

rg "$regex" ~/log

but thinking about how to implement logical AND to produce result lines that contain all substrings without respecting the order the substrings were given as arguments.

[BurntSushi]

See: #875

[BurntSushi]

For colors: rg cat --color always | rg videos.