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Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by taeric on Sunday June 09, 2013 @09:52AM (#5848914)
From reading this, I'm not entirely sure what makes this better than grep. I get why it is cool to have written it.
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Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by calpaterson on Sunday June 09, 2013 @10:21AM (#5848981)
It's not a replacement for grep, it's a replacement for find
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Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by taeric on Monday June 10, 2013 @12:52PM (#5855564)
That works by searching the contents of files. So, it is just a grep -l -R . 'search terms', right?

Edit: Actually, now that I am revisiting this thread. The top post hit my misunderstanding on the head.

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