This covers the basic usage of grep, to find out more please see the man pages: man grep.I see in the find man page: -prune If -depth is not given, true do not descend the current directory. If on the the other hand, you want to use the PCRE expression to find a range of IPs then you would need to use grep -P '^10.0.0.1' filename which would find any matches with an IP between 10.0.0.100 and 10.0.0.199. For example, if you want to search for lines that contain a specific IP in a log file then you would use grep '10.0.0.1' filename. If you just want to search for a basic string then you can use grep with no options. The -L option returns only filenames of files that have no match for the pattern and -l returns only the filenames of files that do have a match for the pattern. However, if you are using the find command, for example, and it finds multiple files which you then run grep on, you may want just the file name returned of matching or non matching files. This is not much use when just searching within one file for a pattern. The -l and -L options return the filenames only when there is either no match present or there is a match present. To make this the default in Centos add this to your ~/.bashrc file: alias grep='grep -color=auto' Matching and non-matching files To turn it on use grep -color=always 'pattern' filename. On Ubuntu, it is on by default but on Centos is it off by default. If you want the matches to be highlighted you can turn on the –color option. For example to find out how many times your wp-cron file has been called then grep -c wp-cron /var/log/httpd/access_log will give you that figure. If you are not interested in the lines that match, only the number of lines that match, then -c is the option to use. Using grep -i 'SeArCh' filename will find any occurrence of the term “search” no matter what the case. The -i option allows you to do case insensitive searches. For instance, if you want to view your Apache logs and exclude any googlebot lines you would use grep -v 'googlebot' /var/log/httpd/access_log. To do this use grep -v “expression” filename. When running a grep match on a file you will sometimes want to exclude lines. If you are doing anything using PCRE then use grep -P 'expression' filename. In this tutorial, we will cover basic and PRCRE. PCRE is the most commonly used regex and what our regex tutorial covers. The -P option enables Perl Compartible Regular Expressions also known as PCRE. These are extended, fixed, basic and Perl.

There are four types of regex supported by grep.

The options will be covered in each of the following sections. The main options we will use in this tutorial are -P, -v, -i, -c, -color, -L, and -l. Grep will by default display any lines in a file that contain the expression. The basic usage of the command is grep expression filename. Grep stands for Globally search a Regular Expression and Print.

Grep options exclude