May 16, 2019 · Moreover, this is a lot faster than a regular grep invocation, since it can exit immediately when the first match is found, rather than needing to unconditionally read (and write) to the end of file.

grep -e PATTERN unless, as stated in an earlier Answer and in the man pages, there are multiple search patterns, or to protect a pattern beginning with a hyphen (-).

Feb 16, 2016 · If you find yourself frequently using grep to do recursive searches (especially if you manually do a lot of file/directory exlusions), you may find ack (a very programmer-friendly grep …

grep -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern" However lately I encountered a problem, shown in the following picture: Looks like this command only recognizes strings that stand out as a word or …

Jul 6, 2016 · grep * means "0 or more", and grep is greedy by default. Note that in grep basic regular expressions the metacharacters ?, + , { , | , ( , and ) lose their special meaning.

Apr 5, 2015 · 11 grep when used with ps -ef also outputs the grep used for filtering the output of ps -ef. grep -v grep means that do not include the grep used for filtering in the command output. You can …

Mar 31, 2014 · In the man page: -r Read all files under each directory, recursively, following symbolic links only if they are on the command line. what exactly does "being on the command line" means? T...

Mar 25, 2016 · I would like to get the multi pattern match with implicit AND between patterns, i.e. equivalent to running several greps in a sequence: grep pattern1 | grep pattern2 | ... So how to …

Jun 6, 2013 · How do I find all files containing a specific string of text within their file contents? The following doesn't work. It seems to display every single file in the system. find / -type f -exec grep -H '

Dec 12, 2019 · Hi i am currently use this to grep: $ grep -nri --exclude-dir=DELIVERY_REL "xxxxxx\.h" --colour --include=*.{c,h} I am trying to fine tune the search results of my grep to include multiple …