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Can you grep through ebooks? (feddit.nl)

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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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[–] JASN_DE 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's to be expected with ls as it only lists the folder contents. Which format do you have?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

epub, mobi and pdf

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