Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 01:51:12PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> > While it is true that grep only searches plain text, the guts of these
> > files can in general be converted to plain text relatively easily,
> > allowing grep to search them.
> 
> I do not know if you are aware of this but cloud storage services like
> this charge by the amount stored. Keeping plain-text copies of
> everything could be very expensive, and increases search time, and
> also brings in a whole new set of issues around keeping binary-file
> contents synchronised with text-file contents...
> 
??? Ay?  Plain text is *way* more compact than other ways of storing
the data surely. Even the largest books (e.g. the whole of Harry
Potter or the Bible) are only around a million words so, at the very
most, I'd guess just 10Mb.

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Chris Green