Obligatory Introduction
Over the years, cmd options have become engrained in my brain. For grep, they are:
- grep -Rin (recursive, case-insensitive, line numbers)
- grep -Ril (recursive, case-insensitive, file names only)
- -v (lines that don’t match)
- etc.
Depending on your shell settings (if you include dot globbing or not):
grep [options] [pattern] *
Does not include local dotfiles in your search. But, changing the asterisk to a period includes everything, including dot files. This may just be zsh vs. bash. I haven’t tried with a standard bash shell yet.
tl;dr
To include dotfiles (and folders) in your recursive greps:
grep [options] [pattern] .
Instead of:
grep [options] [pattern] *
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