$ grep girish /etc/passwd
is known. grep stands for "global regular expression print"
In fact it is so well known that I often think that grep should be
made an English verb.
Anyway the above is not the tip.
$ grep --color girish /etc/passwd
shows the matching lines with the keyword in color.
Also -r is recursive grep. -i is case insensitive grep and -v is non
matching lines...
fgrep is useful when you want to have regular expressions like ".iso"
in the lookup string.
zfgrep is for grepping gzipped files.
-Girish
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