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- GREP ST-UNIX User's Manual GREP
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- COMMAND
- grep search for a string in a file
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- FORMAT
- grep [ option ] ... string [ file ] ...
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- DESCRIPTION
- The file(s) are searched for lines containg _✓s_✓t_✓r_✓i_✓n_✓g. If the
- match is successful the lines are printed. If more than one
- file is to be searched the matched line is preceeded by the
- filename.
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- OPTIONS
- -v Only lines not containing string are displayed.
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- -x Only lines having a complete match are displayed.
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- -c A count of matching line is displayed.
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- -l The names of the files containing the matched lines are
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- -n A line number of the matched line is displayed preceed-
- ing the line.
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- -i The case of letters in the string and file are ignored
- in the match.
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- -s Silent mode. Nothing is printed, only the error status
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- EXAMPLE
- To look for the string 'abc' in 'afile':
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- grep abc afile
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- Printed 10/April/1987 1st April 1987 1
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