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97					<time datetime="2015-08-31T00:00:00+00:00">31 August 2015</time>, 1 min read
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99				<p>I’ve been utilizing Sublime’s <em>Find in Folder</em> feature lately, and can’t believe I didn’t know about this earlier. You can get to it by either right clicking a folder in the file tree, or with the shortcut <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cmd</code> + <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">shift</code> + <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">f</code>.</p>
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101<p>By using an absolute path, you can recursively search every bit of text in project files to locate specific elements. You are essentialy performing a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/html_node/Usage.html">grep</a> command but using the Sublime GUI.</p>
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103it should. After some research on the issue, I discovered <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">folder_exclude_patterns</code>.</p>
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107<div class="language-json highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
108	</span><span class="nl">"folder_exclude_patterns"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="w">
109		</span><span class="s2">".svn"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
110		</span><span class="s2">".git"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
111		</span><span class="s2">".hg"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
112		</span><span class="s2">"CVS"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
113		</span><span class="s2">"node_modules"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
114		</span><span class="s2">".sass-cache"</span><span class="w">
115	</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="w">
116</span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w">
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119<p>If you are using git for version control. Your exclude pattern should generally contain the same things as your <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.gitignore</code>.</p>
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