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09-21-2005, 04:20 PM
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Registered: Jul 2005
Distribution: Fedora fc4, fc7, Mandrake 10.1, mandriva06, suse 9.1, Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0,1,2 (Current)]
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grep command
what does grep do?
I know it's a noobish question but I couldn't fimd the answer anywhere else...
I always see "X | grep Y"
explaination would be awsome... :]
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09-21-2005, 04:31 PM
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Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Athens, Greece
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Type man grep at your terminal's window prompt and you will get your answer with details  |
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09-21-2005, 07:06 PM
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Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
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In brief: grep searches streams for patterns; the stream
can be a file or another programs output. It does this in
a line-oriented manner: in other words, each line that
matches pattern will be found(displayed) by default.
Cheers,
Tink
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