Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything?

• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A list of what the command line switches do is completely different from how to use them to solve a problem.

  There are entire books written about regex.

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can also search ‘grep examples’

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I was only making fun of the poster who derided googling grep by saying “use man”.

      Grep is so expansive that saying “use man” to learn grep is not much more help than saying use “man gcc” to learn how to write a c program.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You made a different point just then too… man grep won’t tell you when you should be using sed or egrep… although the manpage does reference them at the end.

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