grep(1) [minix man page]

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NAME

       grep - search a file for lines containing a given pattern

SYNOPSIS

       grep [-elnsv] pattern [file] ...

OPTIONS

       -e     -e pattern is the same as pattern

       -c     Print a count of lines matched

       -i     Ignore case

       -l     Print file names, no lines

       -n     Print line numbers

       -s     Status only, no printed output

       -v     Select lines that do not match

EXAMPLES

       grep mouse file	   # Find lines in file containing mouse

       grep [0-9] file	   # Print lines containing a digit

DESCRIPTION

       Grep  searches  one  or	more  files (by default, stdin) and selects out all the lines that match the pattern.  All the regular expressions
       accepted by ed and mined are allowed.  In addition, + can be used instead of * to mean 1 or more occurrences, ? can be used to mean 0 or  1
       occurrences,  and  |  can  be used between two regular expressions to mean either one of them.  Parentheses can be used for grouping.  If a
       match is found, exit status 0 is returned.  If no match is found, exit status 1 is returned.  If an error is detected,  exit  status  2	is
       returned.

SEE ALSO

       cgrep(1), fgrep(1), sed(1), awk(9).

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NAME

       grep, g - search a file for a pattern

SYNOPSIS

       grep [ option ...  ] pattern [ file ...	]

       g [ option ...  ] pattern [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Grep  searches the input files (standard input default) for lines that match the pattern, a regular expression as defined in regexp(7) with
       the addition of a newline character as an alternative (substitute for |) with lowest precedence.  Normally, each line matching the  pattern
       is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output.	The options are

       -c     Print only a count of matching lines.
       -h     Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
       -e     The  following  argument	is taken as a pattern.	This option makes it easy to specify patterns that might confuse argument parsing,
	      such as -n.
       -i     Ignore alphabetic case distinctions.  The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
	      tation.  Matched lines are printed in their original form.
       -l     (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
       -L     Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
       -n     Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
       -s     Produce no output, but return status.
       -v     Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
       -f     The pattern argument is the name of a file containing regular expressions one per line.
       -b     Don't buffer the output: write each output line as soon as it is discovered.

       Output  lines  are  tagged  by  file name when there is more than one input file.  (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
       argument.)

       Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
       single quotes '...'.  An expression starting with '*' will treat the rest of the expression as literal characters.

       G invokes grep with -n and forces tagging of output lines by file name.	If no files are listed, it searches all files matching

	      *.C *.b *.c *.h *.m *.cc *.java *.cgi *.pl *.py *.tex *.ms

SOURCE

       /src/cmd/grep
       /bin/g

SEE ALSO

       ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(7)

DIAGNOSTICS

       Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.

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