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Life & fun · June 16, 2019

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Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

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, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc. ExamplesPDFs Say you have a large folder of papers or lecture slides,

Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gz launched on June 16, 2019 with 284 votes, #41 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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Rga extends ripgrep's search capabilities to work across multiple file formats including PDFs, Office documents, and compressed archives like zip and tar.gz files. It's designed for users who need to search text content within these document types rather than just plain text files. The tool combines ripgrep's speed with broader file format support, making it useful for anyone managing documents across various formats who wants unified search functionality.

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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, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc. Say you have a large folder of papers or lecture slides, and you can’t remember which one of them mentioned GRU s. With rga, you can just run this: and it will recursively find a string in pdfs, including if some of them are zipped up. On the first run rga is mostly faster because of multithreading, but on subsequent runs (with the same files but any regex query) rga will cache the text extraction, so it becomes almost as fast as searching in plain text files. All…from phiresky.github.io

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