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Expand Up @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ We'll go through a few of them.
[[_git_grep]]
==== Git Grep

Git ships with a command called `grep` that allows you to easily search through any committed tree or the working directory for a string or regular expression.
Git ships with a command called `grep` that allows you to easily search through any committed tree, the working directory, or even the index for a string or regular expression.
For the examples that follow, we'll search through the source code for Git itself.

By default, `git grep` will look through the files in your working directory.
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