grep options

Question 1

grep -i

Answer 1

ignore case. do not distinguish between upper and lower

Question 2

grep -v

Answer 2

invert match, grep prints the lines that do not match the pattern

Question 3

grep -c

Answer 3

print the number of matches

Question 4

grep -l

Answer 4

print the name of each file, instead of printing each line

Question 5

grep -L

Answer 5

prints the name of each file that DOESN’T contain the pattern

Question 6

grep -n

Answer 6

prefix each matching line wth the number of the line

Question 7

grep -h

Answer 7

for multi-file searches, suppress output of filenames