Grep flags that I like
Here are some grep flags that I use often, almost to the point of automatically appending them regardless of the search
I grep for things so many times a day that I don’t even think about it. I know I need to find something and I immediately start typing the command.
I wanted to share with you the three flags that I use most often when running the grep command.
r– Recursive – I almost always wantgrepto go into sub-folders of where I am looking.i– Ignore Case – I almost never care about case so will want to find ‘This’, ‘THIS’, and ‘this’.n– Number – I like to see the line number after my file it helps give me a sense of where in the document the match was found.