Thanks for all the help everybody!
"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote:
> 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.)
>
> MB
