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DEVELOPER ESSENTIALS: HOW TO SEARCH CODE USING GREP

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Wherever you are on your web development journey, you'll be searching for text or patterns in your code. Searching through code and text is one of the most common tasks you'll be performing while you're building for the web. With this post, you’ll learn what grep is, what it can do, and why it’s one of the most powerful command-line tools you will use when working with code.