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Comment by fergie

8 hours ago

grep -ri foo ./*

Hits in hidden files is not really a pain point for me

Curious if that answers the "I genuinely don't know what is going on here" then? Not searching hidden files (or third-party dependencies, which `rg` also does automatically with its ignore parsing) isn't just a nice to have, it's mandatory for a number of tasks a software engineer might be performing on a code base?