Bash: grep recursively

A short, tested Bash example for grep recursively. Copy it and adjust the names and paths for your project.

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grep -rn "pattern" .                  # recursive, with line numbers
grep -rni "pattern" --include="*.py" .
grep -rl "pattern" .                  # only file names
grep -v "pattern" file                # lines that do NOT match

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