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Blog Learning to love…grep (let the computer search text for you) Posted by Michelle Minkoff on Aug 9, 2012 in Blog, Uncategorized | No Comments I’ve gotten into the habit of posting daily learnings on Twitter, but some things require a more in-depth reminder. I also haven’t done as much paying as forward as I’d like (but I’m having a TON of fun! and dealing with health problems! but mostly fun!) I’d like to try to start posting more helpful tips here, partially as a notebook for myself, and partially to help others with similar issues. Today’s problem: I needed to search for a few lines of text, which could be contained in any one of nine files with 100,000 lines each. Opening all of the files took a very long time on my computer, not to mention executing a search. Enter the “grep” command in Terminal, that allows you to quickly search files using the power of the computer.
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Blog Learning to love…grep (let the computer search text for you) Posted by Michelle Minkoff on Aug 9, 2012 in Blog, Uncategorized | No Comments I've gotten into the habit of posting daily learnings on Twitter, but some things require a more in-depth reminder. I also haven't done as much paying as forward as I'd like (but I'm having a TON of fun! and dealing with health problems! but mostly fun!) I'd like to try to start posting more helpful tips here, partially as a notebook for myself, and partially to help others with similar issues. Today's problem: I needed to search for a few lines of text, which could be contained in any one of nine files with 100,000 lines each. Opening all of the files took a very long time on my computer, not to mention executing a search. Enter the "grep" command in Terminal, that allows you to quickly search files using the power of the computer. -
An easy to use method for content analysis
