Recursive grep: For every time you know you’ve written that code before but can’t remember the exact syntax. Filters out known build directories that would otherwise make it slow (moddify this to your personal use case).

https://github.com/djsamseng/cheat_sheet/blob/main/grep_for_...

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -eq 0 ] then echo "Usage: ./grep_for_text.sh \"text to find\" /path/to/folder --include=*.{cpp,h}" exit fi

text=$1 location=$2

# Remove $1 and $2 to pass remaining arguments as $@ shift shift

result=$(grep -Ril "$text" "$location" \ $@ \ --exclude-dir=node_modules --exclude-dir=build --exclude-dir=env --exclude-dir=lib \ --exclude-dir=.data --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=data --exclude-dir=include \ --exclude-dir=__pycache__ --exclude-dir=.cache --exclude-dir=docs \ --exclude-dir=share --exclude-dir=odas --exclude-dir=dependencies \ --exclude-dir=assets)

echo "$result"