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GREP Command

grep is a command line utility used for searching plain text data for lines matching a regular expression. It was originally developed for Unix systems and is available on Unix-like systems. grep searches for a literal string or regular expression in one or more files and prints the matching lines. The name grep comes from the ed command g/re/p, which performs the same function of doing a global regular expression search and printing matches.

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GREP Command

grep is a command line utility used for searching plain text data for lines matching a regular expression. It was originally developed for Unix systems and is available on Unix-like systems. grep searches for a literal string or regular expression in one or more files and prints the matching lines. The name grep comes from the ed command g/re/p, which performs the same function of doing a global regular expression search and printing matches.

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GREP command

grep is a command line utility for searching plain text data set or lines matching a
regular expression. grep was originally developed for the unix operating system, but
is available for all unix like systems. its name comes from the ed command
g/re/p(globally search a regular expression and print), which has the same effect:
doing a global search with the regular expression and printing all matching lines.
Syntax:
grep "literal_string' filename
1. search for the string in a single file.
syntax : grep "literal_string" filename
eg.

grep "this" demo_file

2. searching for the string in a many files.


syntax:
eg.

grep "string" file_pattern

grep "this" demo_*

3. case insensitive search


syntax: grep -i "string" filename
eg.

grep -i "this" demo_file

4. full word search


example :

grep -iw "is" demo_file

5. display N lines after match


syntax : grep -A <N> "string" filename
eg. grep -A 3 -i "example" demo_text
6. display N lines before match
syntax : grep -B <N> "string" filename
example: grep -B 2 "single word" demo_text
7. display N lines around match
syntax: grep -C <N> "string" filename
example: grep -C 2 "example"demo_text

8. recursively searching
example: grep -r "student" *
9. invert searching
example : grep -v "go" filename
10. counting the number of matches
syntax: grep -c "pattern" filename
example : grep -c "go" demo_text
11. display only the file names which matches the give pattern
example: grep -l this demo_*
12. show the position of match in the line
syntax: grep -o -b "pattern" filename
example: -o -b "3" filename
o=match only string
b= show position
13. show line number while displaying the output.
syntax: grep -n 'go" filename

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