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find [folder] -type f | xargs -I {} grep -li "text" {}
find [folder] -type f # search the specified folder for all files, returns full path of each file
| xargs -I {} grep -li "[text]" {} # piped into xargs to grep for all files containing specified text ignoring case |
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Search & Replace Inside of Files
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find [folder] -type f | xargs -I {} grep -li "text" {} | xargs perl -pi -e 's/[text_to_search_for]/[text_to_search_for]/g'
find [folder] -type f # search the specified folder for all files, returns full path of each file
| xargs -I {} grep -li "[text]" {} # piped into xargs with to grep for all files containing specified text ignoring case}
| xargs perl -pi -e 's/[text_to_search_for]/[text_to_replace_with]/g' # pipe list of files and search/using perl search and replace with specified text} |
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Disk Management
List directories from largest to smallest at the top level only.
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