January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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Name
fgrep
Synopsis
fgrep [options]pattern[files]
Search one or more files for lines that match a literal text string pattern. Exit status is 0 if any lines match, 1 if not, and 2 for errors.
See grep for the list of available
options. Also see egrep.
Examples
Print lines in file that don’t contain any spaces:
fgrep -v ''file
Print lines in file that contain the words in spell_list:
fgrep -f spell_listfile