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  1. What is the difference between grep -e and grep -E option?

    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 (-).

  2. linux - What is the point of "grep -q" - Stack Overflow

    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 …

  3. UNIX grep command (grep -v grep) - Stack Overflow

    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 …

  4. How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories?

    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 …

  5. "grep -rnw": search for a string in all files - Stack Overflow

    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 …

  6. regex - Using the star sign in grep - Stack Overflow

    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.

  7. How to run grep with multiple AND patterns? - Unix & Linux Stack …

    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 …

  8. How to perform grep operation on all files in a directory?

    435 Working with xenserver, and I want to perform a command on each file that is in a directory, grep ping some stuff out of the output of the command and appending it in a file. I'm clear on …

  9. What's the difference between "grep -e" and "grep -E" [closed]

    Jun 16, 2013 · As you mentioned, grep -E is for extended regular expressions whereas -e is for basic regular expressions. From the man page: EDIT: As Jonathan pointed out below, grep -e …

  10. linux - Grep command with multiple patterns - Stack Overflow

    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 …