• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
    3·
    9 days ago

    Or like me obliviously spending cycles trawling through everything.

    find dir/ -iname "*John*Cena*"

    or

    grep -rIi "John.*Cena" dir/
    • marcos@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      spending cycles trawling through everything

      Beats spending cycles indexing everything and never search them.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      2·
      9 days ago

      grep -rIi “John.*Cena” dir/

      I have this sort of thing aliased, with some added --include flags to filter file type (e.g., only match source/script files). Super useful!