What is the difference between grep & find?
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
Answer / chandra (acs)
grep is used to search for string in a file
find is used to searche files or directories
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 150 Yes | 10 No |
Answer / mahesh raghunandanan
grep is used for searching text patterns within a file which
supports regular expression.only fgrep is used to find
string in an expression.
find is a file locator.
used to search certain files or directories.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 74 Yes | 11 No |
Answer / siva
Grep is used to find strings in a file.
Find is used to find a file in a directory or to find directory in the list of directories.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 0 No |
What UNIX command will control the default file permissions when files are created?
In this command sqlplus -s username/password what is -S and what's the use..???
fork()?
How many VI editor modes do you know?
What is a filesystem?
What is an incremental backup?
How can u doing testing in Unix environment ?
Name key files or directories on a UNIX system that should always be backed up?
hi.when will u come to klnce 4 campus interviews??/
How do you list the files in an UNIX directory while also showing hidden files?
What is egrep?
how can we create the script in crontab at mid night on sunday,satuarday,fiday 0n monyh october,november,january? please give me answer if anybody knows ? because on important purpose.