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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Try ripgrep-all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This looks pretty cool, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Glad to help!