grep-2.5.1: description + notes
grep searches the input files for lines containing a match to a
given pattern list. When it finds a match in a line, it copies the
line to standard output (by default), or does whatever other sort of
output you have requested with options.
Though grep expects to do the matching on text, it has no limits
on input line length other than available memory, and it can match
arbitrary characters within a line. If the final byte of an input file
is not a newline, grep silently supplies one. Since newline is also
a separator for the list of patterns, there is no way to match newline
characters in a text.
In addition, two variant programs egrep and fgrep are
available. Egrep is the same as "grep -E", and uses
extended regular expressions. Fgrep is the same as "grep
-F", and searches for a fixed string.
The grep home
page has more information.
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