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Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.


rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. - phiresky/ripgrep-all

rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc. By default, rga caches the extracted text, if it is small enough, to a database in ${XDG_CACHE_DIR-~/.cache}/ripgrep-all on Linux,~/Library/Caches/ripgrep-all on macOS, or C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ripgrep-all on Windows.

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