silver searcher fail for certain files

Question

I'm having trouble recently using silver searcher.

There are 2 files in a directory containing same content:

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A.cpp:

This is a cpp file

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B.cpp:

This is a cpp file

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However, $ ag cpp returns the result of B.cpp, not that of A.cpp:

B.cpp

1:This is a cpp file

How do I deal with that?

Here is the ag command man page

Answer 1

I guess A.cpp has been ignored.

Check your .gitignore and .ignore, etc..

Or you simply search all files with $ ag cpp -u.

See more detail by

$ ag | ag "unrestricted"

-u --unrestricted Search all files (ignore .ignore, .gitignore, etc.; searches binary and hidden files as well)