grep

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grep[1] is a command for searching plain text data sets for lines that match a regular expression.


~/.bash_profile

alias grep='grep --color=auto'

Common options

-o, --only-matching
-a, --text equivalent to --binary-files=text

Examples

Search for a pattern: TEXT="OTHER_TEXT"

Search for a pattern: TEXT="OTHER _TE XT" including spaces:

  • grep -o 'TEXT="[ a-zA-Z0-9_]*"' index.html

Search in hidden folders:

  • grep -ir your-search * .[^.]*

End of line:

  • grep your-search$

Add line:

  • grep -qxF 'your text "additional text"' yourfile.txt || echo 'your text "additional text"' >> yourfile.txt


Related

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See also

  • http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/grep.1p.html
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