How to Use Grep Command to Search Files in Linux

Posted by linuxize on Oct 25, 2018 8:31 AM EDT
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The grep command which stands for “global regular expression print” is one of the most powerful and commonly used commands in Linux. Grep searches one or more input files for lines that match a given pattern and writes each matching line to standard output. If no files are specified, grep reads from the standard input which is usually the output of another command.



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