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Grep Tips & Tricks

  • grep -aisElr 'search string here' ./*
    • -a -> search files as strings (this finds strings in note annotations)
    • -i -> ignore case
    • -s -> suppress errors
    • -E -> use extended regular expressions
    • -l -> only show the filename(s); remove this to see the line where the search string was found
    • -r -> search recursively
  • Use :grep for Grep searching within Vim.
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