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How do I tell to Agent Ransack to ignore files without any type/extension

How can I do that kind of filtering ? I know NOT:*.ext but it is only to skip specific extensions what if I want Agent Ransack to skip files without type/extension
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Is there any file content search tool that decompresses JAR files before looking into it?

I use Agent Ransack to grep entire directories. But it doesn't unzip JAR files before looking into them, is there any tool that does that?
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Escaping open paren in agent ransack does not work

I'm trying to search for the text "names(" (without quotes) in a folder of code. I've tried "names(" but that returns no results where they should be results. Not sure how to deal with this.
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How can I get Agent Ransack to return one line above and below match?

I want to see the matches in context of the lines above and below the match.
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How do I tell Agent Ransack to avoid a particular path/filename pattern?

I've started using Agent Ransack to search an entire directory at once looking for a particular string. The only issue I have with it so far is that if I'm searching in a Subversion working copy, it ...
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Is it just me or does Windows 7 index-based searching still not work as well as Agent Ransack?

It really seems that this is the case....am I wrong? Or an I not understanding something about Windows 7 search and just don't know how to properly use it? And as far as I can tell Agent Ransack ...
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