Is there any way to ignore unreadable files?

[plotski]

I'm using ripgrep in Emacs with counsel-rg. It works wonderfully, but if there is an unreadable file anywhere beneath the current directory, rg always exits with exit status 2 and prints no results that could be found in readable files.

But I don't care about the unreadable file, I want to search the other files.

I can remove the error message with --no-messages, but I still don't get any results and rg still exits with the "catastrophic" error code.

Would it be possible to add a flag that tells ripgrep to treat unreadable files as if they do not exist?

[ChangkeunJ]

rg already searches the readable files and prints their matches, it just also exits 2, and it's counsel that drops the output: counsel--sync-sentinel-on-exit replaces the candidate list with "error code 2" on a non-zero exit. So fix it on the Emacs side: a wrapper in PATH, with counsel-rg-base-command pointing at it instead of rg.

#!/bin/sh
rg --no-messages "$@"; rc=$?; [ $rc -eq 2 ] && exit 0; exit $rc

A bad regex then shows up as rg's error text in the list, fair trade.

[plotski]

I should've checked running rg manually before posting here. Sorry.

Thank you so much for your help! This works perfectly. :)