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		btschaefer on Sept 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day My number one used command: grep -Hnri <text> <file or *>

recoil on Sept 5, 2012 [–]

This works really well with the suggested --color=always, because it highlights the line number, the filename and the separators in different colours.

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