Monday, July 7, 2014

grep: Make UNIX easy

Global search for a Regular Expression and Print



Description Command
Match count -c
case insensitive search -i
recursive search -r
select non-matching lines -v
show matched text in color --color
show matched text and next n lines after it -A n (eg: grep -A 3 "example" demo.txt
show file name along with matched line -H
exclude hidden directories in search results --exclude="\.*" (eg: grep -iHr --exclude="\.*" "text" *
show line numbers -n
search in only specific file types *.fileType (eg: grep -n "print" *.java)

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