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prirai 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Windrecorder – Personal Memory Search Engine

They give us cure, while they hide our true medicine which is 'ls -1 | xargs cat | grep <search term>'.

hawski 11 months ago [–]

I know you are joking but why would you ever do that?

You could use all those instead:

  grep -r <pattern>
  grep <pattern> *
  cat * | grep <pattern>

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