Grep: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:35, 22 December 2016

grep searches the name file or files for the specified string. (You can also use egrep to search inside a file using Regular Expressions )

grep bananas filename.txt This searches for the word bananas in the file, filename.txt

Note that the search is case sensitive. It will not find Bananas, or BANANAS.

If you want it to find all of those, use:

grep -i bananas filename.txt

grep searches for strings, not words. It will match partial words, whole words, and that string inside a whole block of text.

So, if I'm looking inside a file for the word "the", and I use:

grep the filename.txt

grep will output all of the following:

- the - themselves - theory - another (etc...)

... wait, we only wanted "the"...

Fortunately, we can tell grep to do that, like so:

grep -w the filename.txt This will tell grep to only match the word "the".

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 grep searches the name file or files for the specified string. (You can also use egrep to search inside a file using [[Regular Expressions]] )
+=== Case Sensitive ===
 <code>grep bananas filename.txt</code> This searches for the word '''bananas''' in the file, '''filename.txt'''
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-Also, it just searches for that string. It will match partial words, whole words, and that string inside a whole block of text.
+=== String-Search===
+grep searches for strings, not words. It will match partial words, whole words, and that string inside a whole block of text.
+So, if I'm looking inside a file for the word "the", and I use:
+<code>grep the filename.txt</code>
+grep will output all of the following:
+- the
+- themselves
+- theory
+- another
+(etc...)
+... wait, we only wanted "the"...
+Fortunately, we can tell grep to do that, like so:
+<code>grep -w the filename.txt</code> This will tell grep to only match the word "the".