$ grep girish /etc/passwd is known. grep stands for "global regular expression print"
In fact it is so well known that I often think that grep should be made an English verb. Anyway the above is not the tip. $ grep --color girish /etc/passwd shows the matching lines with the keyword in color. Also -r is recursive grep. -i is case insensitive grep and -v is non matching lines... fgrep is useful when you want to have regular expressions like ".iso" in the lookup string. zfgrep is for grepping gzipped files. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
