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Old 06-07-2005
Search for a keyword in a line then output the line
Hi everyone, I've never used Unix ever in my life and I just got a summer job that requires me to manipulate Unix =(

I'm currently encountering a problem...
I need to search for Keyword in a text file, and if I find Keyword , I'll have to output the whole line that contains Keyword into a new text file. I know it can be done with a If-then statement...but I don't know the syntax, could someone please help me? Thanks!
Last edited by SeanDM; 06-07-2005 at 05:12 PM..
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Old 06-07-2005
grep Keyword textFile > newFile
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Old 06-07-2005
Thanks!!! I thought grep only finds a single word instead of a line, but thanks anyways!!! That really helped a lot!
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Old 06-07-2005
Grep outputs the full line of any line it finds in a file contining keyword

If you learn regular expressions (woohhooo I love em) then grep is something you will pine for on windows machines (yes I know you can download "grep for windows")....
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Old 06-07-2005
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Originally Posted by SeanDM
Thanks!!! I thought grep only finds a single word instead of a line, but thanks anyways!!! That really helped a lot!
'grep' stands for GlobalRegularExpressionPrint as in 'g/re/p'
 
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