Search Bear notes using `grep` command

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With grep, I can search through the content of all the files in a directory, for an instance:

grep 'program' *.md

searches for the pattern program within the content of all .md files in the current directory.

How do I search the Bear notes in Terminal using thegrep command?

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You can use the same grep command as mentioned in the question, to search through the contents of .md files exported by Bear. For instance, use

grep pattern *.md

to search for pattern in .md files in the current directory. You can use -i option to ignore case or -n to print line number in file.

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Nevermind; thought I had tried everything I could imagine; turns out I was just over-zealous with escaping special characters from the shell. The syntax I was looking for is:

gr() { grep -r --include=*.{m,h,xib} "$1" * ; }

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There are two minor issues: First, to pipe file names to a perl one-liner in this way, you need to use the xargs command.

Second, you will need to pass the full path to the perl one-liner, because it might be in a subdir, so it would be better to use find.

Here's a working command:

find . -name "*.txt" | xargs perl -i -p -e 's/one.a/two.a/g'

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