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Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on grep command |
00:05 | In this tutorial we will learn grep command. |
00:09 | We will do this with the help of some examples. |
00:11 | To record this tutorial, I am using |
00:15 | *Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Operating System |
00:20 | and *GNU BASH version 4.2.24 |
00:24 | Please note, GNU bash version 4 or above is recommended to practice this tutorial. |
00:32 | As prerequisitesYou should know basics of Linux terminal |
00:36 | For relevant tutorials, please visit our website which is as shown. |
00:41 | First let us know about regular expressions. |
00:45 | *Regular expressions are pattern matching techniques. |
00:50 | *When we have to find out whether a pattern exist in a line, paragraph or a file. |
00:56 | For ex. If you want to search a phone number in the telephone directory |
01:02 | Or To find a keyword in a paragraph or a line, we use grep command
Let us move on to grep. |
01:11 | grep searches for one or more patterns in one or more line, paragraph or a file. |
01:17 | If filename is not mentioned, grep search for the patterns in the standard input. |
01:23 | If filename is missing, grep searches for the patterns in the standard input. |
01:30 | I will demonstrate usage of grep using a demo file called grepdemo.txt |
01:37 | Let us see the content of the file. |
01:40 | This is a file that has 13 entries. |
01:44 | Each entry has 6 fields roll number, name, stream, marks, and stipend amount. |
01:52 | The fields are separated by a bar, which is called a delimiter. |
01:56 | Let us see how grep works. |
02:00 | Say we want to use grep command, to see who are the students in the computers stream. |
02:07 | For this we have to open the terminal. |
02:10 | So press CTRL + ALT and T keys simultaneously on your keyboard. |
02:16 | Now type on the terminal: |
02:18 | grep space (within double quotes) computers after the double quotes space grepdemo .txt |
02:27 | Press Enter |
02:28 | This would enlist those entries where stream is computers. |
02:33 | Now compare the result with the original file. |
02:37 | Come back to our text editor. |
02:40 | We see that the entry for Zubin is not enlisted. |
02:45 | Why this is so? |
02:46 | This is because grep searched for the pattern “computers” with small c |
02:52 | While for Zubin, the stream is “Computers” with a capital C. |
02:57 | The pattern matching is case sensitive. |
03:00 | To make it case insensitive, we need to use the minus i option with grep. |
03:06 | From back to our terminal Now Type:
grep space (minus) i space (within double quotes) “computers” after the double quotes space grepdemo.txt |
03:20 | Press Enter. |
03:21 | This will now enlist all the four entries. |
03:25 | So we saw, grep enlists only those lines of files that match a given pattern. |
03:32 | We may do the reverse. |
03:34 | It is possible to make grep enlist only those lines that do not match the pattern. |
03:40 | For that we have the minus v option. |
03:43 | Say, we want to enlist those entries of students who have not passed. |
03:48 | We can also store this result in another file |
03:52 | For this type:
grep space minus iv space Within double quotes pass after the double quotes space grepdemo.txt space greater than sign space notpass.txt |
04:11 | Press Enter. |
04:12 | To see the content of file, type: cat space notpass.txt |
04:20 | Press Enter. |
04:21 | The output is displayed. |
04:24 | Now at the prompt type: |
04:26 | grep space minus i space' within double quotes fail after the double quotes space grepdemo.txt |
04:37 | And Press Enter. |
04:38 | This is different. |
04:41 | This will include those students who are failed but their result is incomplete. |
04:46 | If we want to see the line number in the file at which the enlisted entries are, we have the minus n option |
04:54 | Let us clear the prompt. |
04:58 | Now type "grep space -in space within double quote "fail" after the double quotes space grepdemo.txt |
05:09 | Press Enter. |
05:11 | The line number is displayed. |
05:15 | The patterns so far have been of single word. |
05:18 | We may have multiword patterns as well. |
05:21 | But the entire pattern must be within quotes. |
05:24 | So type: grep space minus i spacewithin double quotes ankit space saraf after the double quotes space grepdemo.txt |
05:38 | Press Enter. |
05:40 | We see that Ankit Saraf's record is displayed. |
05:44 | We can also find patterns in multiple files. |
05:48 | For this Type:
grep space minus i space within double quotes fail after double quotes space grepdemo.txt space notpass.txt |
06:03 | Press Enter. |
06:04 | The output is displayed. |
06:07 | With multiple files, grep will write the name of the file in which the entry was found.grepdemo.txt and notpass.txt |
06:18 | These are the records from notpass.txt file and these are the records from grepdemo.txt file. |
06:26 | Suppose we may only want to know the number of matches or count . |
06:31 | For that, we have the minus c option |
06:35 | So Type: grep space minus c spacewithin double quotes Fail with a capital F after the quotes space grepdemo.txt |
06:48 | Press Enter. |
06:50 | This will give us the count of number of lines matched. |
06:55 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial. |
06:59 | Let us summarize. |
07:01 | In this tutorial we learnt, |
07:03 | *To see the content of a file
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07:07 | *To list the entries of a particular stream
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07:14 | *To ignore cases
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07:21 | *Lines that do not match the pattern
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07:30 | *To list the line numbers with the entries
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07:38 | *To store the result in another file
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07:50 | And*To know the count
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07:57 | As an assignment, |
07:58 | Explore some other commands like -E, + and ? |
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08:45 | This is Ashwini Patil from IIT Bombay signning off. Thank you for joining. |