ripgrep-all

rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. 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. For more detail, see this introductory blogpost: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2019/rga--ripgrep-for-zip-targz-docx-odt-epub-jpg/ rga will recursively descend into archives and match text in every file type it knows. Here is an example directory with different file types: demo/ ├── greeting.mkv ├── hello.odt ├── hello.sqlite3 └── somearchive.zip ├── dir │ ├── greeting.docx │ └── inner.tar.gz │ └── greeting.pdf └── greeting.epub Integration with fzf See the wiki for instructions of integrating rga with fzf. INSTALLATION Linux x64, macOS and Windows binaries are available in GitHub Releases. Linux Arch Linux pacman -S ripgrep-all Gentoo Linux emerge sys-apps/ripgrep-all Nix nix-env -iA nixpkgs.ripgrep-all Debian-based download the rga binary and get the dependencies like this: apt install ripgrep pandoc poppler-utils ffmpeg If ripgrep is not included in your package sources, get it from here. rga will search for all binaries it calls in $PATH and the directory itself is in. Windows Note that installing via chocolatey or scoop is the only supported download method. If you download the binary from releases manually, you will not get the dependencies (for example pdftotext from poppler). If you get an error like VCRUNTIME140.DLL could not be found, you need to install vc_redist.x64.exe. Chocolatey choco install ripgrep-all Scoop scoop install rga Homebrew/Linuxbrew rga can be installed with Homebrew: brew install rga To install the dependencies that are each not strictly necessary but very useful: brew install pandoc poppler ffmpeg MacPorts rga can also be installed on macOS via MacPorts: sudo port install ripgrep-all Compile from source rga should compile with stable Rust (v1.75.0+, check with rustc --version). To build it, run the following (or the equivalent in your OS): ~$ apt install build-essential pandoc poppler-utils ffmpeg ripgrep cargo ~$ cargo install --locked ripgrep_all ~$ rga --version # this should work now Available Adapters rga works with adapters that adapt various file formats. It comes with a few adapters integrated: rga --rga-list-adapters You can also add custom adapters. See the wiki for more information. Adapters: pandoc Uses pandoc to convert binary/unreadable text documents to plain markdown-like text Runs: pandoc --from= --to=plain --wrap=none --markdown-headings=atx Extensions: .epub, .odt, .docx, .fb2, .ipynb, .html, .htm poppler Uses pdftotext (from poppler-utils) to extract plain text from PDF files Runs: pdftotext - - Extensions: .pdf Mime Types: application/pdf postprocpagebreaks Adds the page number to each line for an input file that specifies page breaks as ascii page break character. Mainly to be used internally by the poppler adapter. Extensions: .asciipagebreaks ffmpeg Uses ffmpeg to extract video metadata/chapters, subtitles, lyrics, and other metadata Extensions: .mkv, .mp4, .avi, .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .webm zip Reads a zip file as a stream and recurses down into its contents Extensions: .zip, .jar Mime Types: application/zip decompress Reads compressed file as a stream and runs a different extractor on the contents. Extensions: .als, .bz2, .gz, .tbz, .tbz2, .tgz, .xz, .zst Mime Types: application/gzip, application/x-bzip, application/x-xz, application/zstd tar Reads a tar file as a stream and recurses down into its contents Extensions: .tar sqlite Uses sqlite bindings to convert sqlite databases into a simple plain text format Extensions: .db, .db3, .sqlite, .sqlite3 Mime Types: application/x-sqlite3 The following adapters are disabled by default, and can be enabled using '--rga-adapters=+foo,bar': mail Reads mailbox/mail files and runs extractors on the contents and attachments. Extensions: .mbox, .mbx, .eml Mime Types: application/mbox, message/rfc822 USAGE: rga [RGA OPTIONS] [RG OPTIONS] PATTERN [PATH ...] FLAGS: --rga-accurate Use more accurate but slower matching by mime type By default, rga will match files using file extensions. Some programs, such as sqlite3, don't care about the file extension at all, so users sometimes use any or no extension at all. With this flag, rga will try to detect the mime type of input files using the magic bytes (similar to the `file` utility), and use that to choose the adapter. Detection is only done on the first 8KiB of the file, since we can't always seek on the input (in archives). --rga-no-cache Disable caching of results 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. This way, repeated searches on the same set of files will be much faster. If you pass this flag, all caching will be disabled. -h, --help Prints help information --rga-list-adapters List all known adapters --rga-print-config-schema Print the JSON Schema of the configuration file --rg-help Show help for ripgrep itself --rg-version Show version of ripgrep itself -V, --version Prints version information OPTIONS: --rga-adapters=<adapters>... Change which adapters to use and in which priority order (descending) "foo,bar" means use only adapters foo and bar. "-bar,baz" means use all default adapters except for bar and baz. "+bar,baz" means use all default adapters and also bar and baz. --rga-cache-compression-level=<compression-level> ZSTD compression level to apply to adapter outputs before storing in cache db Ranges from 1 - 22 [default: 12] --rga-config-file=<config-file-path> --rga-max-archive-recursion=<max-archive-recursion> Maximum nestedness of archives to recurse into [default: 5] --rga-cache