Linux/Mac Terminal Tutorial: The Grep Command - Search Files and Directories for Patterns of Text
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2018
- In this Linux/Mac terminal tutorial, we will be learning how to use the grep command. The grep command allows us to search files and directories for patterns of text. You can also pipe the output of one command into grep to get certain matches. It's extremely useful once you learn the ins and outs. Let's get started...
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6:35 $ grep -win -C 2 "find this string" ./*
8:05 $ grep -winr "Find that string even in subdirs" ./*
9:35 $ grep -wirl "List those files that contain this string in current directory dot" .
10:20 $ grep -wirc "List those files that contain this string and number of occurrences in current directory dot" .
11:10 $ history | grep "search for git commits in history"
12:00 $ history | grep "search for git commits" | grep "now narrow down to some string"
15:40 only for mac: $ brew install grep --with-default-names #to allow regular expressions based on perl, as shown in 17:56.
19:13 Homework!
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Wow your tutorial made grep SO much simpler. Thanks!
So glad I looked at this tutorial. I've known how to kind of use grep for a while. Some of these options are going to be super helpful to me in the near future. I should have looked in the man pages a long time ago!
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Thanks for creating this video, have been searching on how bash commands filter text files, can't find anything helpful, glad I searched it on RUclips.
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thank you so much for talking about the BSD grep and GNU grep!! i stuck there for so long ;-;
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Nice tutorial, I see there''s also a find tutorial too. I'll check it out. I always am confused between both of them
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Hi corey, well done like always 👍👍 thanks
Nevertheless i would like to add a trick if you didn't already know that
When you use history and grep you could wrap the g of grep in a square braquets in order to not get the command itself in the output of the matched results...
History | [g]rep
Very well explained! :D
Coincidentially, I had just tried out grep yesterday after completing the "Terminus" game. Today my colleague was very impressed when in a matter of seconds, out of 7500 case files, I picked those 40 or so which contained one certain word. also you can export the results easily into a file (I use &>>filename.txt (.csv also works)), which might come in handy if your boss wants "all the contracts with the Miller Company ASAP", or if you want to quickly mail a list of relevant files. As always, great video!
Nice! Yeah, knowing the command line is a great way to do tasks like this and is a lot more time efficient than writing a complete program from scratch to do the same functionality.
I think back to the days where I literally let Windows XP search through "all .doc files, look for existence of expression Blabla" over the whole FRIGGIN WEEKEND! I think back in shame of course :) One day, I will make a video explaining how I turned an unsorted mess of 15 years unsorted .doc files into a searchable database over a weekend and I will refer a lot to you. Thanks man!
This is exactly what I'm looking for, a way to search for a certain word within 10-20K of case files, located on different drives. I usually use mdfind "word" but it doesn't always work on pdf files, do you mind sharing that method/command you used to find those files?
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Great video as always. Our company has switched from Windows to Mac, and I find all of these videos supremely helpful while transitioning.
Also, I find it interesting that Gnu is pronounced Gah-new when referring to the software, but just "New" when referring to the animal; sort of like Dvorak the composer (pronounced: d(ə)-VOR-zha(h)k) vs Dvorak the professor/keyboard designer I guess. Thanks again!
Glad you find the videos helpful! As far as the pronunciation, if you're interested there's a short clip on this site with the author explaining how he came out with the pronunciation. Kind've humorous and interesting:
www.gnu.org/gnu/pronunciation.en.html
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Very nice never bothered to learn it before but great video
Awesome work as usual, Mr Schafer! Can you make a python tutorial on big data in the future? Would be really interesting!
Great video... You could have mentioned about grep -v option too.
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Finally a great explanation of GREP for Mac terminal nerds like me! GOLD!
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Not sure if you did it purposely but -win is an easy, useful flag to remember
awesome,thank you! :)
Thank you for this very amazing and concise tutorial. You have summarized everything perfectly! Does . and ./* mean the same thing if I do grep r?
I thinkl you forgot the -v option that matches everything but the pattern!
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Hey love the video; got a question.
Homebrew decided to deprecate the --with-default-names option and I am having trouble finding how to do the same thing as you did with that now gone. Do you have any advice?
Thank you
Once I fell asleep on the keyboard typing grep arguments and it showed me the path to the 5th demension
Hey, thanks for the great tutorial, btw how did you create a custom zsh / bash session for theses tutorials?
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For any youtube searches, If I see your video I would just open it
Thankyou sir
great video! What about sed and awk? are you ever gonna cover them? Keep it up, pretty good work ;)
In case any one is having issues with the --with-default-names flag on Mac - it is apparently not available anymore in the latest version of homebrew. One workaround that worked for me is to 1. install the package via "brew install grep"; 2. set up an alias pointing from grep to ggrep. You can do this by adding 'alias grep='ggrep' somewhere in your .bash_profile file.
Steps:
1. brew install grep
2. nano ~/.bash_profile
3. (add 'alias grep='ggrep' somewhere in the file and then save it)
4. open new terminal for the change to become effective
5. check with grep -V (should display "ggrep (GNU grep) ...")