On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 01:37:39AM +0000, Dimitri Joukoff wrote:
> When performing global changes in a project/tree using a command like:
>
> grep -r "search" | xargs -I {} sed -i '' s/search/replace/g
>
> there exists the possibility that this command will alter data in .git
> folder. Using GNU grep, it is possible to use --exclude '/.*"' to avoid
> the .git folder, but this flag is not available on BSD grep (i.e. MacOS).
Try 'git grep "search" | ...'
