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Can you grep through ebooks? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Try ripgrep-all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This looks pretty cool, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad to help!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This tool is very powerful! Just what I needed, thanks again. Turns out you need pandoc 3+ and linux mint repo has 2.9, so after upgrading that rga started working, but it still throws this error from time to time:


parseSpine
Error: copying adapter output to stdout

Caused by:
    0: subprocess: Command { std: "pandoc" "--from=epub" "--to=plain" "--wrap=none" "--markdown-headings=atx", kill_on_drop: false }
    1: ExitStatus(unix_wait_status(16384))

I will have to keep looking into it, I'm not sure if this error stops the search in it's tracks.

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