Lesson 5 of 16 · about 16 min
Finding things and regular expressions
find locates files by name; grep -r searches inside every file. Regular expressions describe patterns of text (like "any phone number"), so you can search for shapes, not just exact words.
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- find and grep -r
- Regular expression
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