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Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms? by realstuff on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:49PM (#13240675)
Looks like it searches the filenames, I am referring to file contents. Does it support that?
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Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms? by gkelly on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:35PM (#13242866)
I really like ack over grep, and there's a vim plugin too.

https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim

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Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms? by atmosx on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:03PM (#13240771)
GNU grep should be able to handle a few hundred small files easily for a few MB of free ram...
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Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms? by realstuff on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:22PM (#13240921)
Yeah, but it's not as convenient as a GUI search in, say, Sublime.
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Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms? by icebraining on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:31PM (#13241432)
That's debatable. For me, typing "gr <expression>" (my abbreviation for recursive grep) is quite fast and convenient.
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Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms? by greenspot on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:57PM (#13240730)
No, but what about locate, grep and find?

Locate is the fastest, find is the slowest and grep is the most complex but also the most versatile one of these since you can use regexes.

It's the shell and you can use anything you want.

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Re:Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms? by realstuff on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:19PM (#13240900)
Locate searches the filenames, too.
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