grep


“to search” – derives from the standard unix search utility of the same name.
please grep the movie listings to see what time the movie starts.
grep is a unix/linux utility that searches the named input file/s for lines containing a match to the
given pattern.
dmesg | grep -i ‘usb’

here the dmesg command is piped through grep to extract any patterned data matching ‘usb’. the -i switch is used to tell grep to ignore the case of the letters ‘usb’.
to find a pattern in a given input.

grep “pattern” file

or:

“i grep’d your product’s manual, but found nothing about ‘what to do if product is on fire’.”

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