rg in directory with lots of unpinned files

[vdwees]

I typed rg in the root of a directory that uses the Windows 10 API for offline files. My computer locked up and crashed shortly after, probably because most of the files were not Pinned (they also have the attribute RecallOnDataAccess) and ripgrep likely triggered the download of thousands of files. Is there a way to scan offline-only files with ripgrep?

[BurntSushi]

I don't see how, no. ripgrep doesn't know about remote file systems. That's all transparent to ripgrep. If you tell it to search a directory then it will. As far as I can tell, the only way to limit it to offline files is to get a list of offline files and feed that list as arguments to ripgrep.