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Can you grep through ebooks? (feddit.nl)
submitted 2 months ago by skaarl@feddit.nl to c/linux@sopuli.xyz
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I was trying to do that but I noticed ls | grep searchterm just searches the book TITLES for searchterm. Is this possible, to search the text of ebooks?

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[โ€“] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's to be expected with ls as it only lists the folder contents. Which format do you have?

[โ€“] skaarl@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

epub, mobi and pdf