Name

fgrep

Synopsis

fgrep [options] pattern [files]

Search one or more files for lines that match a literal text string pattern. Exit status is 0 if any lines match, 1 if not, and 2 for errors.

See grep for the list of available options. Also see egrep .

Examples

Print lines in file that don’t contain any spaces:

$ fgrep -v ''
                     file

Print lines in file that contain the words in spell_list:

$ fgrep -f spell_list
                     file

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