Comment by gorgonzolachz

2 and 3 are great points, but honestly - and especially if you're working in multiple repos, or multiple subdirectories in a monorepo - VS code's folder search is better than grep. It'll find you the exact place in the file, and a click will take you there, nice and easy. I've more or less forgotten the quirks/flags of grep, because I haven't needed to use it in a while.