Be careful with these kinds of realizations around here… (Apparently the term ‘horseshoe theory’ can summon half of lemmy user base on the thread)

I did this once (for real, but without AI assistance)

Soap! (Just kidding go for the other replier suggestion)

David Graeber’s “Debt” goes to some extent about this,

He traces philosophy back to a few factors such as urbanization, imperialism (i.e. Greece, India and China were great empires at that time) and the advent of coinage at the time (which allegedly was a way ro finance armies and finance more imperialism)

• case insensitive
• rrecursive
• only show filenames

I also like to use:

• I (capital i) to skip binary files, if I’m in a folder with heavy images/videos/etc
• c 3 to show 3 lines around the matched text

Fun fact: I use “git bash shell” over windows’ cmd just because of grep

grep -irl "some text that the file would have"

(Obiously only work for text files, but that’s enough to cover 90% of cases for me)