What is the syntax of "grep" command?

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What is the syntax of "grep" command?..

Answer / jayachandran.g.r

syntax of "grep" command

syntax: grep {word to lookup} {filename}

Ex: grep man test

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What is the syntax of "grep" command?..

Answer / satchi

Grep is a filter used for pattern matching in shell script.

It searches for the patern if file name is give, or else it
will look for the input data using pipe(|)

Syntax:

1. Grep <patern to search> <Filename>
2. cat <filename> | grep <Patern to search.>

we can use -i option to ignore case sensitiveness.There are
so many options available.you have to explore that.

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What is the syntax of "grep" command?..

Answer / vasanth

grep: Find lines in a file that match a regular expression

syntax: grep [options] pattern [files]

Useful Options : -v, -l, -L, -c, -n, -b, ,-i

-v Print only lines that donot match the regular expression
-l Print only names of files that contains matching
lines,not the line themseleves

for furthur information
pls ref. linux pocket guide by Daniel J. Barrett (page-71)

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What is the syntax of "grep" command?..

Answer / kaustubh

grep command is a utility which helps in searching pattern
from the given file.

example

grep "pattern" /home/username/somefile.txt

it ll search all lines in the file somefile.txt and will
print the line which contains pattern.

there are many options as
-v = invert
-i = ignorecase
-c = count
-l = filename
-r = recursive

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