grep

• If you want to search for literal text, just type it:

ls | grep php

• If you want to use a regex, put it in quotes:

svn status -u | grep '^[^?]'

• look for regexes
• can do all sorts of stuff

# recursively (subdirectories) look for case indipendent starting w this dir
grep -ri searchterm

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