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Useful shell commands
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List files containing text

grep -rin '[SEARCH_TEXT]' app | cut -f 1 -d ":"

Delete specific text from file

sed -i '' '/[SEARCH_TEXT]/d' [FILENAME]

Delete specific text from

sed -i '' '/[SEARCH_TEXT]/d' $(grep -rin '[SEARCH_TEXT]' [SEARCH_PATH] | cut -f 1 -d ":")

Delete specfied line from file

sed -i '' -e '[LINE#]d' [FILENAME]

Brutally kill all Rails processes

kill -9 $(ps aux | grep rails | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f 2)

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