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I'm pretty happy with `find|xargs grep` myself. Of course, I have an alias that hides the arcane incantation away under a single `frep`, but underneath it uses
by troels 13y ago
I'm pretty happy with `find|xargs grep` myself. Of course, I have an alias that hides the arcane incantation away under a single `frep`, but underneath it uses those tried and tested unix tools. An alias is usually simpler to carry with me to new systems as well.
- ams6110 13y agoMy alias is my .bash_history :). I grant that these other tools are great, but I like using the standard utilities because, among other things, once you learn 'find' and 'xargs' you can piece together all kinds of other commands and you don't have to remember a tool-specific syntax (at least for the 'find' and 'xargs' parts).