From --help

   -q, --quiet
           Do not print anything to stdout. If a match is found in a file, stop searching. This is
           useful when ripgrep is used only for its exit code.

"anything" didn't apply, unless --quiet needs a redefinition.

I suppose in order to make this useful, ripgrep should return an error exit code if --files would otherwise result in no output. (Otherwise, I don't know what the point of --quiet is.)

@alecthomas Can you say more about why you're trying to use --files --quiet?

Similar to why I'd use a normal ripgrep(!)... I want to know if files with a certain extension exist, for the purposes of further processing. A bit like find . -type f -name '*.h' > /dev/null && do_something

I'm doing if rg --files --quiet --glob '*.go'; then ... fi

Ah, OK, I actually didn't even know ripgrep already handled the exit code correctly here. Nice. Yes, --quiet should work.

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