12 engineers on Hacker News describe using grep first-hand: 0 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I shouldn't have to look at the man pages this regularly just to remember the letters I need to type”
mixed · personal · 10 yr · sweezyjeezy · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Typically I use VSCode's directory find feature (or CLI tools like grep) to just search the codebase.”
neutral · production · lhamil64 · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“grep -r Year ./source was enough to find them all anyway.”
neutral · production · anonzzzies · 2024-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been using this for past decade or more”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · AtomicOrbital · 2022-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But I have been using grep with nim code daily and it was not an issue.”
neutral · personal · planetis · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On the command line, I just use grep”
neutral · personal · GordonS · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In fact, I've been piping jq to grep to find things!”
neutral · personal · commandlinefan · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“familiarizing myself with different commands, such as sed, grep and awk, to navigate around the command line and edit files”
neutral · personal · catacombs · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“grep's focus on pure speed and optimization of a common case and Perl's focus on versatility”
neutral · personal · kbenson · 2014-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“any funky research is done by good ol' awk/grep/sed.”
neutral · production · sehrope · 2013-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A mere grep on a day's worth of logs takes about 10 minutes for us.”
neutral · production · 3amOpsGuy · 2012-08-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've never seen grep so slow, and I've been using UTF-8 locales for years.”
neutral · personal · mgedmin · 2011-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?