How do I fuzzy find all files containing specific text using ripgrep and fzf and open it VSCode

I have the following command to fuzzy find files in the command line and to open the selected file in VSCode.:

fzf --print0 -e | xargs -0 -r code

Now I want to be able to search also file contents for a string. I am able to find the searched string in the command line:

rg . | fzf --print0 -e

but now it does not work anymore to open the file in VSCode using this command:

rg . | fzf --print0 -e | xargs -0 -r code

because to VSCode is passed a file name which contains the file name itself and the search string which is of course an empty file.

How can I combine to two above commands to pass the file name to VSCode which contains the searched string?

My VSCode fzf extension does this for you when running the rg commands from the command palette.

The extension leverages the --vimgrep option to rg that returns just what the doctor ordered. I added this capability in response to the issue you put in:

https://github.com/rlivings39/vscode-fzf-quick-open/commit/101a6d8e44b707d11e661ca10aaf37102373c644

It returns data like:

$ rg --vimgrep
extension.ts:5:5:let fzfTerminal: vscode.Terminal | undefined = undefined;
extension.ts:6:5:let fzfTerminalPwd: vscode.Terminal | undefined = undefined;

Then you can cut out the first 3 fields and pass them to code -g:

rg --vimgrep --color ansi | fzf --ansi --print0 | cut -z -d : -f 1-3 | xargs -0 -r code -g