I partially agree with you, but it's because I have a certain searching method that I'm comfortable with. I use sed/awk/grep quite a bit. The find command is

I partially agree with you, but it's because I have a certain searching method that I'm comfortable with. I use sed/awk/grep quite a bit. The find command is also useful - but with those utilities, I can quickly search for any string or regular expression I need. If I'm looking for the word cow in a doc that I think is in a folder (even if it's in subfolders), then I can do this: grep --color=always -r "cow" (I like setting color to always, and for some reason I'm too lazy to set up an alias so I don't have to type it) I can get way more complicated by escaping spaces, looking for certain file types, etc.... really this does about the same as grep though - but still interesting: find -name ".txt" -o -name ".md" -type f | sed 's/\ /\\\ /'g | xargs grep --color=always -n "cow" Using these utilities, I've been able to find things in lots of lines of code, or lots of lines of md files.