--- Timothy-Allen Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what is grep, may this novice ask?
>
> Tim.
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:47 AM, knk
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Why would you want to do that?
> > What are the applications that you want to
> dis-allow? From a Linux stand
> > point even grep is an application.
> >
> > knk
> >
>
Grep is a program which allows you to search for
patterns in a file. For example, if the contents of a
file called 'Example' are as follows:
Hello, my name is xyz.
How are you today?
What is your name?
Moo.
If I were to execute the following command to search
for the string 'is' in the file:
grep is Example
I would get the output as:
Hello, my name is xyz.
What is your name?
