Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The different permutations of grep

bzegrep (1) - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression
bzfgrep (1) - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression
bzgrep (1) - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression
egrep (1) - print lines matching a pattern
fgrep (1) - print lines matching a pattern
grep (1) - print lines matching a pattern
pgrep (1) - look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes
rgrep (1) - print lines matching a pattern
zegrep (1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
zfgrep (1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
zgrep (1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

According to passing the string 'grep' to the always useful 'apropos' command

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