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They still are for anything but graphical tasks (photo editing, drawing diagrams, etc.)

E.g. what's the fastest way to get a sorted list of all the .jpg files in a directory?



Type .jpg in a search field in the Finder vs. google how to do that using grep I guess?


Now you want to get that list of files in a text file, so that you can email them to someone or put them in a document or etc.


Why would you use grep?


You tell me




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