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Short engineering note
Search text quickly with grep
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- Mehdi Akiki
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grep -nR "pattern" .
# show 2 lines of context
grep -n -C2 pattern file.txt
Tip: rg (ripgrep) is a faster modern alternative.
Short engineering note
Note · Engineering notes
grep -nR "pattern" .
# show 2 lines of context
grep -n -C2 pattern file.txt
Tip: rg (ripgrep) is a faster modern alternative.