What is the syntax of grep command and what is its use?

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What is the syntax of grep command and what is its use?..

Answer / bharath

grep command is used to search a file for keywords.
grep 'keyword' file

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What is the syntax of grep command and what is its use?..

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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What is the syntax of grep command and what is its use?..

Answer / guest

grep " string" filename

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What is the syntax of grep command and what is its use?..

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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What is the syntax of grep command and what is its use?..

Answer / shilpa

syntax= % grep pattern file-name-1 file-name-2
It is used to search files

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What is the syntax of grep command and what is its use?..

Answer / bhaskar

syntax

grep "filename or string name"

It is used to find the values quickly

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