What is the syntax of grep command and what is its use?
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Answer / bharath
grep command is used to search a file for keywords.
grep 'keyword' file
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Answer / amit
grep command is used to search the any word, any sentence
from given or input file.
syntex of grep command is
grep "word or sentence" filename
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Answer / ankita
grep is used to find the patterns inside files.
grep -options "pattern" file_name
grep -i "hello" test_file
this is search for "hello"(case doesn't matter as we have used -i) in test_file
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Answer / shilpa
syntax= % grep pattern file-name-1 file-name-2
It is used to search files
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