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Discussion on: What are your UNIX pipeline commands that saved you from lot of coding/time?

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Tuomo Tanskanen

Why not use grep -R to avoid find? Might also want to try git grep and/or ag (silversearcher).

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Florian Rohrer

grep -R might not be available on older systems.

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ale

Honestly, I didn't know about that flag.
Thanks for the tip!
:)