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		inetknght on Feb 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub experiencing issues with actions, pull requ... I don't understand grep not being an option when searching at wider scales. I have yet to find a wide-enough scale that grep can't handle. And GitHub's search results are _literally_ useless. > No, I am not "kidding"... are you? Nope

devlopr on Feb 8, 2021 [–]

grep or git-grep? (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-grep)

inetknght on Feb 9, 2021 | [–]

I use pure `grep`, not `git-grep`.

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