grep - what arguments do you usually specify?

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Published on 2009-07-27T18:44:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 16:55 UTC
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My most common grep line is just..

grep -IRl "text" *

However I'm kinda getting tired of retyping this over and over - is there some way I can make an alias command so that those arguments are always enabled?

And, I was wondering what arguments you usually specify for text searching - my two arguments 'R' for recursion, 'I' for not including binary types like jpg/gif, and 'l' for line number seem a bit too minimal. Which arguments do you use?

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