Quick Answer: How Use Egrep Command in Linux?
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How do you use egrep in Linux?

The egrep command belongs to the family of the grep command which is used for pattern searching in Linux. If you have used the grep command, egrep works the same as grep -E (grep Extended regex’) does. Egrep scans a specific file, line to line, and prints the line(s) that contain the search string/regular expression.

What is egrep?

egrep is an acronym for “Extended Global Regular Expressions Print“. It is a program which scans a specified file line by line, returning lines that contain a pattern matching a given regular expression.

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