GREP

grep.md

Find a file.

$ find . fileName

Recursively find in *

grep -R 'etoxin' *

Exclude a directory

grep -R --exclude-dir=node_modules 'etoxin' *

Only output filenames

grep -rl 'todo' *

Ignore case

grep -ri 'todo' *
# finds todo & TODO

Find in a file

$ grep apple fruitlist.txt
$ grep apple *.txt

regex grep in file

$ grep ^a.ple fruitlist.txt
grep "[strawblue]berry" fruitlist.txt

Grep History

history | grep whatYouWantToFind