Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >   Ever heard of the magical word "grep"? Do you know what it's used for in
> > unix systems? If yes, and you understand why this utility has existed for,
> > like, forever, then why are you asking "why would you evern want to do such
> > a thing"?

> I throught that grep is an overly-complicated way of searching for the 
> location of a string within one particular file? (I usually just use my 
> text editor's "search" function.)

  You use your text editor to tell you which files in a directory structure
contain a specified string? Talk about being overly complicated. grep is a
way, way simpler way to do that.

> >   Maybe you don't need to search files containing a certain string, but many
> > other people do.

> I guess I don't very often edit large files...

  What does file size have to do with anything?

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                                                          - Warp

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