ack

ack is a famous code search tool to replace grep (in a lot of use cases): https://beyondgrep.com/why-ack/ Now there is something even better. There is ag aka The Silver Searcher: ggreer/the_silver_searcher It is like ack, but faster. Why not just grep? Hella fast. Like really really fast. It is beautifully optimized C. It ignores files from .gitignore Instead of doing this with grep: grep -R --exclude-dir=node_modules 'foobar' /path/to/your/code You can just do (if you have node_modules in your ....