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2.GrepRegEx

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Red Hat Certified

System
Administrator

Using grep and


Regular Expressions
What is grep?
grep is a program designed for
finding matching patterns.
It can be used by itself:
grep Error /var/log/messages

Or as part of a pipe:
find . –name *.txt | grep taxes

Course Title
grep Common Flags
grep
-i: Makes the search case
insensitive

-r: Makes the search recursive


through a directory structure

-v: Makes the search find all


instances where there is not a
pattern match

-w: Makes the search match on a


word rather than any pattern
match

Course Title
grep Regular Expressions Pt. 1
^ Match expression at the start
of a line, as in ^A

$ Match expression at the end


of a line, as in A$.

\ Turn off the special meaning


of the next character, as in \^

[ ] Match any one of the


enclosed characters, as in
[aeiou], and use a hyphen
for a range, as in [0-9]

[^ ] Match any one character


except those enclosed in [ ],
as in [^0-9]

Course Title
grep Regular Expressions Pt. 2

. Match a single character of


any value, except end of line

* Match zero or more of the


preceding character or
expression

\{x,y\} Match x to y occurrences


of the preceding

\{x\} Match exactly x occurrences


of the preceding

\{x,\} Match x or more


occurrences of the preceding

Course Title
grep Regular Expressions
Search files for lines with the word
linux:
grep linux files
With linux at the start of a line:
grep '^linux' files
With linux at the end of a line:
grep 'linux$' files
Show lines containing only linux:
grep '^linux$' files
Lines starting with '^s', \ escapes the ^:
grep '\^s' files
Search for either Linux or linux:
grep '[Ll]inux' files
Search for BOB, Bob, BOb or BoB:
grep 'B[oO][bB]' files
Search for blank lines:
grep '^$' files
Search for pairs of numeric digits:
grep '[0-9][0-9]' file

Course Title

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