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Using grep, fgrep, and egrep to search for strings of words 2011-05-16

Using grep, fgrep, and egrep to search for strings of words

The grep utility is a handy little tool with which every Unix programmer should be familiar. grep easily matches simple strings, and uses a variety of wild cards and special symbols to create a regular expression to search for more complex strings.