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‘grep’ prints lines that contain a match for one or more patterns.

   This manual is for version 3.7 of GNU Grep.

   This manual is for ‘grep’, a pattern matching engine.

   Copyright © 1999–2002, 2005, 2008–2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
     Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
     Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts,
     and with no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in
     the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.

Introduction

Introduction.

Invoking

Command-line options, environment, exit status.

Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions.

Usage

Examples.

Performance

Performance tuning.

Reporting Bugs

Reporting Bugs.

Copying

License terms for this manual.

Index

Combined index.