Regex and Fixed Strings/Search as a plain literal string

Disable regex parsing and match the text exactly.

Section: Literal and escaped searches

Search as a plain literal string

bash
bash
rg -F 'user.name' .
Explanation

Use `-F` when searching strings that contain dots, brackets, or other regex metacharacters.

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