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Comment by mvanveen

1 year ago

> What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation of some function which is in some other file?

At some point, for me, ‘find <dir> -name “*.ext” | xargs grep <pattern>’ took over for recursive grep, because the required tools are available on most Unix systems.

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