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eg. grep apple afile.txt

It searches for term apple on the file “afile.txt”

The searchterm can be regex “regular expression”

* term repeats 0 or more times

. any single character but not end of line

[ ] any of items or range in brackets

^ term at begin of line

$ term is at end of line

Examples :

Grep test.g afile grep ^sh afile grep $t

afile

Grep [0-9] afile grep ^[0-9] afile

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