Code Searching with grep

• Simple wildcard search
• Search for definitions
• Using a word's root
• Locating files: grep on the output of ls
• File list: grep -l
• Use the result of a file list vi `grep -l ...`
• Stream edit the grep result to create scripts
• Postprocess with grep (-v) to eliminate noise (malloc / xmalloc)
• Use sort -u to eliminate duplicates
• Use fgrep to search for a fixed list of strings
• Use find and xargs to obtain filename lists

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