mutool grep

The grep command searches for text in a document and prints each matching line.

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mutool grep [options] pattern file [ file2 ...]

pattern

file Document to search in.

[options]

Basic options:

``-p`` password
	Use the specified password if the file is encrypted.
``-G``
	The pattern is a regular expression.
``-a``
	Ignore diacritics and accents (treat ä and a as the same).
``-i``
	Ignore case (treat A and a as the same).
``-H``
	Print filename for each match.
``-n``
	Print page number for each patch.

Avanced options:

``-S``
	See :doc:`/reference/common/search-options`.
``-O``
	See :doc:`/reference/common/stext-options`.
``-b``
	Search backwards, starting from the end.
``-[`` start-mark
	Insert mark at the start of each match when printing results.
``-]`` end-mark
	Insert mark at the end of each match when printing results.
``-v``
	Show verbose search debugging feedback.
``-q``
	Hide all warnings and error messages. Use at your own risk!