CVSROOT: /web/grep Module name: grep Changes by: Karl Berry <karl> 09/05/24 18:43:01
Index: manual/html_node/Invoking.html =================================================================== RCS file: manual/html_node/Invoking.html diff -N manual/html_node/Invoking.html --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ manual/html_node/Invoking.html 24 May 2009 18:42:59 -0000 1.1 @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +<html lang="en"> +<head> +<title>Invoking - GNU Grep 2.5.4</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> +<meta name="description" content="GNU Grep 2.5.4"> +<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> +<link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> +<link rel="prev" href="Introduction.html#Introduction" title="Introduction"> +<link rel="next" href="Regular-Expressions.html#Regular-Expressions" title="Regular Expressions"> +<link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/"; rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> +<!-- +This manual is for `grep', a pattern matching engine. + +Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009 Free +Software Foundation, Inc. + + Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this + document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, + Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software + Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, + and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included + in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. + --> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> +<style type="text/css"><!-- + pre.display { font-family:inherit } + pre.format { font-family:inherit } + pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } + pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } + pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } + pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } + span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } + span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } + span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } +--></style> +</head> +<body> +<div class="node"> +<a name="Invoking"></a> +<p> +Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Regular-Expressions.html#Regular-Expressions">Regular Expressions</a>, +Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Introduction.html#Introduction">Introduction</a>, +Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> +<hr> +</div> + +<h2 class="chapter">2 Invoking <samp><span class="command">grep</span></samp></h2> + +<p>The general synopsis of the <samp><span class="command">grep</span></samp> command line is + +<pre class="example"> grep <var>options</var> <var>pattern</var> <var>input_file_names</var> +</pre> + <p class="noindent">There can be zero or more <var>options</var>. +<var>pattern</var> will only be seen as such +(and not as an <var>input_file_name</var>) +if it wasn't already specified within <var>options</var> +(by using the ‘<samp><span class="samp">-e </span><var>pattern</var></samp>’ +or ‘<samp><span class="samp">-f </span><var>file</var></samp>’ options). +There can be zero or more <var>input_file_names</var>. + +<ul class="menu"> +<li><a accesskey="1" href="Command_002dline-Options.html#Command_002dline-Options">Command-line Options</a>: Short and long names, grouped by category. +<li><a accesskey="2" href="Environment-Variables.html#Environment-Variables">Environment Variables</a>: POSIX, GNU generic, and GNU grep specific. +<li><a accesskey="3" href="Exit-Status.html#Exit-Status">Exit Status</a>: Exit status returned by <samp><span class="command">grep</span></samp>. +<li><a accesskey="4" href="grep-Programs.html#grep-Programs">grep Programs</a>: <samp><span class="command">grep</span></samp> programs. +</ul> + + </body></html> +
