Find when two keys appear close together.
Section: Multiline and structured-text searches
Search for nearby JSON keys
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rg -U '"error"\s*:\s*true.*\n.*"retry"' data.jsonExplanation
For more precision on JSON, consider `jq`, but multiline rg is good for exploration.
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Related commands
Same sheet · prioritizing Multiline and structured-text searches
Search across line boundaries
Allow regex matches to span multiple lines.
Search a YAML block
Look for a key followed later by another key in the same block.
Inspect filtering decisions
Show diagnostics about ignores, globs, and traversal.