Search for the string command grep in the Linux File

Search for string commands in Linux Files: grep: Use 'grep' to search for text files
If you want to find a string in several text files, you can use the 'grep' command. 'Grep' searches for the specified string in the text.
Suppose you are searching for a file with the string 'Magic 'in the'/usr/src/Linux/documentation' directory:

$ Grep magic/usr/src/Linux/documentation /*
Sysrq.txt: * how do I enable the magic sysrq key?
Sysrq.txt: * how do I use the magic sysrq key?

The 'sysrp.txt 'file contains this string. The sysrq function is discussed.

By default, 'grep' only searches for the current directory. If the directory contains many subdirectories, 'grep' is listed as follows:

Grep: Sound: is a directory

This may make the output of 'grep' difficult to read. There are two solutions:

Search for subdirectories: grep-R
Or ignore the subdirectory: grep-D skip
Of course, if you expect a lot of output, you can use the pipeline to transfer it to the 'less'. Read:

$ Grep magic/usr/src/Linux/documentation/* | less

In this way, you can read more conveniently.

Note that you must provide a file filtering method (* for searching all files *). If you forget, 'grep' will wait untilProgramInterrupted. If this happens, press <Ctrl C> and try again.

The following are some interesting command line parameters:

Grep-I pattern files: searches case-insensitive. Case Sensitive by default,
Grep-l pattern files: only names of matched files are listed,
Grep-l pattern files: Lists unmatched file names,
Grep-W pattern files: match only the entire word, not a part of the string (for example, match 'Magic ', not 'magical '),
Grep-C number pattern files: the matching context displays the rows of [number,
Grep pattern1 | pattern2 files: displays the rows matching pattern1 or pattern2,
Grep pattern1 files | grep pattern2: displays rows that match both pattern1 and pattern2.
Here are some special symbols used for search:

\< and \> respectively indicate the start and end of a word.
For example:
grep man * matches 'Batman ', 'manic', and 'man,
grep '\ grep '\ ' only matches 'man ', not other strings such as 'Batman' or 'manic.
'^': indicates the first row of a matched string.
'$': indicates the end of a matched string.
if you are not familiar with the command line parameters, you can try 'grep' on the graphic interface, such as rexgrep. This software provides and, or, not, and other syntaxes, as well as beautiful buttons. If you only need more explicit output, try fungrep.