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Old 07-03-2013
How to search a word in a file?
How to search a particular word in a file.
in my file contains lacks of rows.
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Old 07-03-2013
you can use
grep
sed
awk

go through man pages..
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Old 07-03-2013
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How to search a word in a file?
How to search a particular word in a file.
in my file contains lacks of rows.


Hello,

Here are some small examples for searching a word as follows.

Code:
 
 
$ cat test1211
ASD_QAW 12 A_@
AE_AQ 21 PA_123
ASDA_@ 23 ADA_AS
 
 
Using Grep:
 
$ cat test1211 | grep "ASD*"
ASD_QAW 12 A_@
ASDA_@ 23 ADA_AS
$

 
 
Using awk:
 
$ awk '/ASD*/' test1211
ASD_QAW 12 A_@
ASDA_@ 23 ADA_AS
$



Also you can use vi editor to open a file and seacrn a word in it.



Thanks,
R. Singh
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