Sweet Search And Highlight Command
Been doing quite a bit of manipulating LaTeX files on the command line recently, and have a very sweet little command for searching for text in multiple files:
grep -r Hoffman */*.tex | less +/Hoffman
Where “Hoffman” is the search term which can of course be any regular expression.
The “less” command has a very convenient argument “+” which allows you to pass a search term in and will automatically highlight it for you.
The -r in grep recurses directories and */*.tex looks for all tex files. the | pipes the result to less.
sweet.
