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d-gearloose on April 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: 25+ years of personal knowledge management

If you're on a Linux system and the notes are just text files a grep -rn . -e 'search term' is probably sufficient. Use -rnw If you're looking for whole words.

leephillips on April 5, 2022 [–]

Absolutely. And if you do this a lot it might be worth substituting ripgrep for grep.

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