Comments on How to use grep to search for strings in files on the Linux shell

hi sir,

i am facing a problm that how to fetch the common words from a file by grep.i tried thro the hardcoded string like

grep "abc" MyFile.txt.if i dont know if there are any common words in the file or not.then how i do it?plz help me so.

Hi Sir,

I wants to get the content in beetween the particulers word like

It starts with subject and ends with subject and i wants the content in between that 

find . -exec grep -H "" {} \;

Sounds like an awk task to me

I have two files with content. file1 has two columns of content, and file2 has a single column of content.

I would like to use grep to find all matching rows of file1 content, and that matches file2 row of content and display.

Not all content has a match for file1 and file2, but I would like the match to be correct. 

Any advise for this?

I'm a linux novice and im using the grep function to search for the number 1. "grep 1 tdocs" now its working it's giving me car1 wheel1 but then also car11 and 12. How do i go about specifing the search so it's just car1 and wheel1? Many Thanks.

I need some help with grep...

I have two .txt files that contain lists, the first, a.txt, contains:

abcd

and the other, b.txt, contains

abgcd

I want to use grep to output items from b.txt that arent in a.txt, in this case, "g"

I think it goes something like

grep -v --file=a.txt b.txt

For what it is worth you may want to look into using the "strings" command for searching for strings in a binary, as it is explictly designed for that

You need a better patern. to find a  "free standing" 1, you need to include what may precede and follow the 1. Tis is a little bit tricky, as some choies onclude a space, a tab, or a EOL

Thanks! It helped me a lot!

Thank you! The recursive capabilities of the "grep" program helped me find the information I'd sought in no time.