Grep

grep is a command for searching plain text data sets for lines that match a regular expression.

~/.bash_profile

alias grep='grep --color=auto'

Common options

-o, --only-matching

Search for a pattern: TEXT="OTHER_TEXT"

• grep -o 'TEXT="\w*"' index.html

Search for a pattern: TEXT="OTHER _TE XT" including spaces:

• grep -o 'TEXT="[ a-zA-Z0-9_]*"' index.html

• grep .

• grep -I (Ignore binary files)

See also

• ack, ag, grep, egrep, fgrep, agrep, ngrep, pgrep, awk, sed, strings, tr, tail, mtail, git grep, wc, uniq, LogQL, findstr (Windows), rg, git-grep, cut
• include Cisco IOS command
• match PAN-OS command
• Select-String or sls in Powershell
• Linux logging, Cisco IOS logging

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/grep.1p.html