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Can you grep through ebooks? (feddit.nl)
submitted 4 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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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

grep searchTerm file

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 months ago

You can't grep zip archives directly.

[-] thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

Ripgrep-all has that capability.

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 months ago

Good to know.

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