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#TIL : Grep : find a string in folder

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Grep is a greate tool for searching a string in files.

Syntax

$ grep -nr '[string]' [folder]

If you want to show surrounding lines the result, add flag -C [number] to the command

$ grep -nr -C 3 'hello' src

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