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# Grep

## Contents

The grep package contains the egrep, fgrep and grep programs.

## Description

### egrep

egrep prints lines from files matching an extended regular expression pattern.

### fgrep

fgrep prints lines from files matching a list of fixed strings, separated by newlines, any of which is to be matched.

### grep

grep prints lines from files matching a basic regular expression pattern.

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