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Use Grep for Fast Search from the Command Line

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    Find matches excluding a pattern with grep
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Find matches excluding a pattern with grep

Bonnie Eisenman
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Published 7 years ago
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What happens when you want to find things that don't contain a pattern? The -v flag lets you use grep in inverse mode. We'll use grep -v against find's output to exclude files in node_modules.

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