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  • life with BSD
  • 2025-06-05 Ripgrep or ripgrep-all
  • 2025-06-02 Ripgrep a nice Rust utility for ports spelunking
  • 2025-05-31 Get started with gpui on FreeBSD
  • 2025-05-29 Query freshports with Deno
  • 2025-05-27 Trying out Defuddle an npm tool via Deno
  • 2025-05-25 Deno for FreeBSD
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2025-06-05 Ripgrep or ripgrep-all

While looking through the ports tree I noticed there is also a variant of ripgrep called ripgrep-all. According to the pkg-descr

rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc.

Basically, it can search a multitude of binary formats for some form of (text oriented) regex. For my own purposes, I only am focused on text-based files so am fine with sticking with just plain ripgrep.

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