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How can I use grep to search for lines that start with a certain character in bash
I want an alias ('ggg') that will look through my existing set of aliases and tell me all the ones that begin with g. I have a lot of g* aliases :)
I tried this: alias ggg='alias | grep ^g' but ...
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Grep alias - line numbers unless it's in a pipeline
I want to create a bash alias for grep that adds line numbers:
alias grep='grep -n'
But that, of course, adds line numbers to pipelines as well. Most of the time (and no exceptions come to mind) I ...
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A problem with find and grep
I have dafined the following in .bashrc:
alias fg='find . -name $1 | xargs grep --color $2'
in order to write
fg "*.txt" " my_text "
and find all file that have extension .txt and contain " ...
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Is there a 'rc' configuration file for grep/egrep? (~/.egreprc?)
I usually do some grep when developing, and there are some extensions that I always don't want to look for (like *.pyc).
Is it possible to create a ~/.egreprc or something like that, and put some ...
