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authorAndrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com>2023-11-25 14:18:24 -0500
committerAndrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com>2023-11-25 15:03:53 -0500
commit6a055d922cb0899efe48d76defad3ff56ab7395d (patch)
tree16446aad06a2480ff4541a97c8fa77e88065a75d /crates
parente0075232291bd4043202844719e755f5980a4cc8 (diff)
doc: clarify errors for -z/--search-zip
Fixes #1622
Diffstat (limited to 'crates')
-rw-r--r--crates/core/flags/defs.rs4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crates/core/flags/defs.rs b/crates/core/flags/defs.rs
index 5e76e455..9200c143 100644
--- a/crates/core/flags/defs.rs
+++ b/crates/core/flags/defs.rs
@@ -5969,7 +5969,9 @@ impl Flag for SearchZip {
This flag instructs ripgrep to search in compressed files. Currently gzip,
bzip2, xz, LZ4, LZMA, Brotli and Zstd files are supported. This option expects
the decompression binaries (such as \fBgzip\fP) to be available in your
-\fBPATH\fP.
+\fBPATH\fP. If the required binaries are not found, then ripgrep will not
+emit an error messages by default. Use the \flag{debug} flag to see more
+information.
.sp
Note that this flag does not make ripgrep search archive formats as directory
trees. It only makes ripgrep detect compressed files and then decompress them