# Grep

> grep, egrep, fgrep, rgrep - print lines that match patterns

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

### [Manual](https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html)

## TIL(s)

* [Grep Case Insensitive Search](/linux/grep/grep-case-insensitive-search.md)
* [Grep Count Occurance](/linux/grep/grep-count-matches.md)
* [Grep Exact Match](/linux/grep/grep-exact-match.md)
* [Grep Invert Search](/linux/grep/grep-invert-search.md)
* [Grep On Continous Stream](/linux/grep/grep-on-continous-stream.md)
* [Grep Quiet Mode](/linux/grep/grep-quiet-mode.md)
* [Grep Search For Multiple Strings](/linux/grep/grep-search-for-multiple-strings.md)
* [Remove Empty Lines](/linux/grep/remove-empty-lines.md)


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