HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

grep

Here in the information age, we have too much information. We are constantly trying to extract the information we are after from stacks of information. The grep command is used to search for text and display it. grep stands for General Regular Expression Parser. Let's first look at a few simple searches and display the output with grep. Figure 24-1 shows creating a long listing for /home/denise, and using grep, we search for patterns.

Figure 24-1. grep Command

First, we search for the pattern netscape. This produces a list of files, all of ...