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Discussion on: Demystifying the find command

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Chris Greening

Iā€™ve been relying more and more on the command line and grep and find have been some of my favorite tools for exploring new codebases

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Antonin J. (they/them)

Same! I use grep all the time to find references to functions/constants when I don't know where they could be. And same with find (especially when paired with fzf)

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MontegasppĪ± CacilhĪ±Ļ‚

If you both like grep, look for The Simple Searcher (ag).

Itā€™s gonna blow your minds.