Search File Names using ripgrep

The other day I was wondering if I could use ripgrep to do a combined search of file names and their content. While this feature does not come out of the box, it turns out that one can implement it in a straightforward way. Ripgrep comes with a --files flag which lists all files that a search operation would consider (Remember: ripgrep can decide to skip files based on some criteria, e.g. if a file is listed in a .gitignore file). Since the output of --files is text based, we can use a pipe to also search through those lines as well. A bash script could look like this:

rg --files | rg "$1"
rg "$1"

Other command line tools such as find or fd might be better suited to search for file names, but the above approach has a convenience aspect, since we can use the same search expression for two different searches. Thanks Andrew for coming up with such an awesome tool!