tnx On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Final Bandicoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > --- Timothy-Allen Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <camotim%40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > what is grep, may this novice ask? > > > > Tim. > > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:47 AM, knk > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <nkamatam%40gmail.com>> 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? > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
