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jjeaff · 2020-04-08 19:24:33+00:00

Please share your grep binary that allows me to search countless hours of boring video for actionable content.

hamandcheese | karma 4274 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2018-01-20 02:28:35

Okay, show me an end to end platform I can grep through.

datashaman | karma 254 | avg karma 0.93 · | 2021-06-09 03:16:46+00:00

Probably The Silver Surfer. The CLI is `ag`. Often used as a replacement for `grep`.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/

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tehlike | karma 4415 | avg karma 1.89 · | 2020-02-23 13:22:08

I like to grep a code pattern through out all repos. I use gstreamer, and sometimes i just don't know how to use it to do a specific thing. So i search substrings to find out usage patterns by other people.

casey2 | karma 174 | avg karma 1.4 · | 2023-06-14 23:32:22

grep?

ycombover | karma 4 | avg karma 4.0 · | 2014-08-12 16:22:56

GNU sed 4.2.1 awk 3.0.4 and grep 2.4.2, http://www.git-scm.com/ , Bundled with Windows Git (which needs an updated find)

Python with pandas, http://pandas.pydata.org/ , If I need HDF5 or time series

ffmpeg, ffmpeg.org, If I'm generating animations

* I look forward to your book :)

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cbd1984 | karma 2237 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2015-02-28 01:54:56+00:00

The correct way:

grep "^porn" /usr/share/dict/words

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mattdeboard | karma 5575 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2013-01-24 23:54:37+00:00

ack-grep does quite a lot of this as well.

x0x0 | karma 8994 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2016-06-13 05:54:18+00:00

If you haven't tried https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher yet you're missing out

The progression is grep with a ton of flags (or even find | xargs grep) -> ack -> ag.

ag is faster than ack, automatically understands .gitignore, gives you .agignore as well, and is just a really nice piece of software.

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f0e4c2f7 | karma 2024 | avg karma 2.74 · | 2021-09-24 21:35:01

Probably grep.

znpy | karma 10741 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2020-09-09 09:53:03+00:00

grep&awk.

I've become quite fond of gnu grep.

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Myrmornis | karma 1804 | avg karma 1.18 · | 2016-06-13 05:44:51+00:00

Cool. For emacs, here's an interface for narrowing down `git grep` and `ag` results that I've been enjoying using: https://github.com/dandavison/emacs-search-files

GrumpySimon | karma 141 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2012-03-31 05:03:28+00:00

This is very cool. I'd love a command line replacement for grep that does this. Any suggestions?

HKH2 | karma 854 | avg karma 0.73 · | 2024-02-26 09:12:30

You don't have to use grep.

jakosz | karma 27 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2017-04-04 20:57:13+00:00

Grep for the internet.

What I often want is not a search engine, not a recommender, but a filter. Something that would allow me to look at the distributions of content on the Web rather than trying to answer my questions. I badly wanted to pay someone a few quid for a service like this, but had to build it myself.

Feel free to piggyback on the next batch job; use fBd7guQLDLx6RIm00GE7uH5h0Lk1CKKl as access key.

https://alpha.crawlfilter.com/

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confounded | karma 3465 | avg karma 3.94 · | 2018-07-15 08:02:28+00:00

... grep?

BozeWolf | karma | avg karma · | 2016-03-05 06:04:03

Haha! Yes! +1 for this. I do exactly the same thing. Or even just grep txt. The find command just is sometthing i cant get into my muscle memory (despite using linux for more the 15 years)

RHSeeger | karma 5929 | avg karma 3.1 · | 2018-07-04 17:14:15+00:00

I find slack's search to be absolutely abysmal. If it at least logged to disk, I could grep/awk/sed it.

Foober223 | karma 124 | avg karma 1.01 · | 2019-03-01 20:34:29+00:00

GNU grep. If you cheat and count years since the original grep it's pretty old.

falcolas | karma 33589 | avg karma 3.15 · | 2015-02-01 00:06:06+00:00

Grep, awk, sed for the easy stuff, logastash/elasticsearch/kibana for the harder stuff.