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author | tiehuis <marctiehuis@gmail.com> | 2017-02-28 17:53:52 +1300 |
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committer | Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> | 2017-03-08 10:17:18 -0500 |
commit | 714ae822418e13b1084d377654b3419f22a51866 (patch) | |
tree | af54173d5af5712b8c53645e026e55d7548cb908 /doc | |
parent | 49fd6687120ef11192847ef47191bbc6d32a2ed9 (diff) |
Add `--max-filesize` option to cli
The --max-filesize option allows filtering files which are larger than
the specified limit. This is potentially useful if one is attempting to
search a number of large files without common file-types/suffixes.
See #369.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/rg.1 | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/rg.1.md | 9 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Automatically generated by Pandoc 1.19.1 +.\" Automatically generated by Pandoc 1.19.2.1 .\" .TH "rg" "1" .hy @@ -275,11 +275,21 @@ Follow symlinks. .RS .RE .TP -.B \-m, \-\-max\-count NUM +.B \-m, \-\-max\-count \f[I]NUM\f[] Limit the number of matching lines per file searched to NUM. .RS .RE .TP +.B \-\-max\-filesize \f[I]NUM\f[]+\f[I]SUFFIX\f[]? +Ignore files larger than \f[I]NUM\f[] in size. +Directories will never be ignored. +.RS +.PP +\f[I]SUFFIX\f[] is optional and may be one of K, M or G. +These correspond to kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes respectively. +If omitted the input is treated as bytes. +.RE +.TP .B \-\-maxdepth \f[I]NUM\f[] Descend at most NUM directories below the command line arguments. A value of zero searches only the starting\-points themselves. diff --git a/doc/rg.1.md b/doc/rg.1.md index 8804fcc5..830a3bb4 100644 --- a/doc/rg.1.md +++ b/doc/rg.1.md @@ -187,9 +187,16 @@ Project home page: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep -L, --follow : Follow symlinks. --m, --max-count NUM +-m, --max-count *NUM* : Limit the number of matching lines per file searched to NUM. +--max-filesize *NUM*+*SUFFIX*? +: Ignore files larger than *NUM* in size. Directories will never be ignored. + + *SUFFIX* is optional and may be one of K, M or G. These correspond to + kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes respectively. If omitted the input is + treated as bytes. + --maxdepth *NUM* : Descend at most NUM directories below the command line arguments. A value of zero searches only the starting-points themselves. |