Re: [newbie] GREP

[Michael R. Batchelor]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Shannon M. Johnston wrote:

> Does anybody know what the grep command do?


grep = Global Regular Expression Processor

$ grep dog filename

will spew out every line in filename which contains
the string "dog"

Read through the docs for grep and egrep, then get
the O'Rielly book. Understanding this stuff will
be the most useful thing you'll ever learn about
Linux/Unix. (I've been doing this since '87, and
I've learned a lot of useful and useless stuff.)

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