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grep.txt
grep -Porn <pattern>
P: Use Perl engine, grep can't run modern regexes otherwise
o: Only show the matching part, not the whole line
r: Search recursively
n: Print line number of matches
Bonus: use -Porh to exclude filenames from output i.e. only show matches. Great for piping.
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