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		sachdevap on June 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep It's a common model recently to get word of mouth publicity for the book, to get some reviews to get the book off the ground.

chris_wot on June 18, 2019 [–]

I paid, mostly because you were actually giving it away for free.

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