Search a file for a fixed-character string.
| -b |
Precede each line by the block number on which it was found. This can be useful in locating block numbers by context (first block is 0). |
| -c |
Print only a count of the lines that contain the pattern. |
| -h |
Suppress printing of files when searching multiple files. |
| -i |
Ignore upper/lower case distinction during
comparisons. |
| -l |
Print the names of files with matching lines once,
separated by new-lines. Does not repeat the names of files when the pattern is found more than once. |
| -n |
Precede each line by its line number in the file (first line is 1). |
| -s |
Work silently, that is, display nothing except error messages. This is useful for checking the error status. |
| -v |
Print all lines except those that contain the
pattern. |
| -x |
Print only lines matched entirely. |
| -e pattern_list |
Search for a string in pattern-list (useful when the string begins with a -). |
| -f pattern-file |
Take the list of patterns from pattern-file. |
| pattern |
Specify a pattern to be used during the search for input. |
| file |
A path name of a file to be searched for the
patterns. If no file operands are specified, the standard input will be used. |
