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Can you grep through ebooks? (feddit.nl)
submitted 6 months ago by skaarl@feddit.nl to c/linux@sopuli.xyz
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I was trying to do that but I noticed ls | grep searchterm just searches the book TITLES for searchterm. Is this possible, to search the text of ebooks?

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[โ€“] thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ripgrep-all has that capability.

[โ€“] nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 months ago

Good to know.