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| author | Charles Blake <cb@cblake.net> | 2018-07-13 09:54:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> | 2018-07-21 17:25:12 -0400 |
| commit | 231456c409ff38c75c39d01b781b569965ddf808 (patch) | |
| tree | 592b89acd3172b0c23acdfe6113bcd70ea11aa3a /README.md | |
| parent | 1d09d4d31ba3ac2eb09edf31e8ec46b2b5cec388 (diff) | |
ripgrep: add --pre flag
The preprocessor flag accepts a command program and executes this
program for every input file that is searched. Instead of searching the
file directly, ripgrep will instead search the stdout contents of the
program.
Closes #978, Closes #981
Diffstat (limited to 'README.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ increases the times to `2.640s` for ripgrep and `10.277s` for GNU grep. specifically specified with the `-E/--encoding` flag.) * ripgrep supports searching files compressed in a common format (gzip, xz, lzma, bzip2 or lz4) with the `-z/--search-zip` flag. +* ripgrep supports arbitrary input preprocessing filters which could be PDF + text extraction, less supported decompression, decrypting, automatic encoding + detection and so on. In other words, use ripgrep if you like speed, filtering by default, fewer bugs, and Unicode support. |