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grep

It searches for lines with patterns in files. It is very useful for you to get your required information from a huge system log neatly.

e.g.

Get all lines with pattern ' login' in /var/log/messages. Output is displayed on standard output.

grep ' login' /var/log/messages


System Administrator
Thu Jul 26 10:50:59 HKT 2001