Thursday, May 20, 2010

grep options and fgrep



$grep -V
GNU grep 2.6.3

Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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GREP -F or fgrep

$grep -F H hello.txt
Hello
$grep -F helloKello hello.txt
$grep -F helloello hello.txt
$grep -F hell hello.txt
hello
helloo
hello
$time grep -F hell hello.txt
hello
helloo
hello

real 0m0.009s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.008s
$time grep hell hello.txt
hello
helloo
hello

real 0m0.009s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.004s
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