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Performs a recursive grep search, looking only at Python files. The first argument is the search string, the second on is the directory to search through. Handy when aliased to a command like "searchpy".
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#!/bin/bash
grep -r --include='*.py' "$1" ${2:-.}
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mminer commented Jan 7, 2014

This could be trivially modified to search any given file type, I just happen to do a lot of searching through Python files.

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mminer commented Nov 20, 2014

I no longer use this; Ack has replaced Grep as my search tool of choice.

ack --python

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