I tried this
grep -rn "application_config_project" .
I got many
application_config_project_name = f"{app_acronym}-application-config"
github_application_config_repo = application_github_organization.get_repository(application_config_project_name)
f"Initializing Application Config Project {application_config_project_name}"
how to restrict my search just to application_config_project?
You can specify word boundaries using \b if your version of grep supports that:
grep -rn '\bapplication_config_project\b'
If you’re using GNU grep, you can use the -w option instead (it matches whole words):
grep -wrn application_config_project
\b work in every grep now? I thought only GNU and BSD grep copied \b from perl, while other versions use the POSIX [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] instead. GNU & BSD grep (and maybe some others) also support \< and \> for before and after word boundaries.
[[:<:]] to work though, grep always complains about an invalid character class name…
\b is better. \< and \> are tolerable, but kind of pointless since \b works whether you put it before a "word" or after.