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报错:grep: 04:00:30.775: No such file or directory
如果是date要用双引号,否则空格会认为一半是string,一半是file。
查看zip文件中的内容
zgrep dingbusan *.zip
忽略大小写
grep -i *.log
打印文件名(一般用于多文件)
grep -H shipotian *.log
如果条数太多,可以加wc -l
查看条数.
只获取匹配到的内容,不要整行数据
grep -o zhangwuji *.log #
获取匹配行前后的数据
grep -C 2 error *.log # 匹配行和上下(center)2行的数据
grep -A 5 error *.log # 匹配行和后面(after)5行的数据
grep -B 2 error *.log # 匹配行和之前(before)2行的数据
grep -5 error *.log # 不写字母,和C相同,默认是上下n行
小写 -a -b -c
小写和大写不是一个意思。
grep -a 不忽略二进制数据,但因为一般遇不到二进制文件,这个命令作用不大。
grep -b 显示匹配到的字符位置,在一行数据特别多的时候很有用,可以先拿到字符数,后续再根据字符串截取前后一定数量字符。
grep -c 统计匹配的行数,相当于 grep aaa *.log | wc -l。
一行内容很多时根据字符匹配
直接上命令:
grep 匹配内容 business.log -b ; # 找到字符位置
获取匹配项前后1000个字符:
num=5000;
a=$[num+1000]
b=$[num-1000]
head -c $a business.log | tail -c +$b ;
匹配单个单词
grep -word ing *.log
其他命令
grep -n 和 grep -5 不一样
grep -n 显示行号
grep -5 也不知道这个是什么
grep -h 多文件时不显示文件名,因为单文件没必要显示。多文件默认会显示,加-h就不会显示了。
grep -H 多文件时显示文件名。(不用显式声明,默认就是这个)
组分隔符
grep --group-separator=------ 指定组分隔符,默认是–。
在-A-B-C时,就能看到–分隔符。(限定条件,也就是说,如果没有-A等参数,组分隔符无效)
grep --no-group-separator 不使用分隔符
grep的or,and,not
or多条件或
or多条件查询,例如 zhangsan,lisi的我都要
方法有好几种,如下是3种示例:
grep "zhangsan\|lisi" *.log # 用\| 表示转义的 | ,不要忘记前面的右斜杠
# grep -E 相当于 egrep, 使用正则表达式, 中间的 | 不用转义
grep -E "zhangsan|lisi" *.log #
egrep "zhangsan|lisi" *.log #
错误写法:
grep a b test.txt
这样肯定是不行的,因为会把b当做文件。
and多条件与
不只一种办法。
通过管道多次grep
方案一:
多条件与,用多个grep即可。
grep zhangsan *.log | grep lisi
就是多条件在不同行, 例如异常是多行的。
java.lang.Exception
at com.example.accessingdatamysql.controller.Demo.main(Demo.java:15)
我们要找Demo类的Exception,可以如下写法,这样2行记录都能显示出来:
grep -A 2 Exception | grep -B 2 Demo *.log
方案二:
排列组合下可能的情况(如果字段比较多,那么不太适合):
grep “chu.*yu|yu.*chu” c.txt
### 排除掉匹配行(not)
grep -v zhangfei *.log # 排除带有zhangfei的行
grep子级目录
有的时候,不确定在哪个文件夹下:
grep 1bbb9012cf543e26 */*.log # 这样可以,但是成本有点高
如果大致知道在某几个文件夹下,用空格分隔即可,如下:
grep 1bbb9012cf543e26 document/*.log custom/*.log # 可以多文件夹grep 空格分隔
-a的作用
像处理文本一样处理二进制文件,简单的说就说可以查看二进制文件中的内容。
例如
grep bbb a.txt.tar # 能匹配到文件,但是不会显示内容
grep -a bbb a.txt.tar # 可以显示内容
注: tar是二进制文件。 tar.gz不是二进制文件。 需要用zgrep命令
grep 大文件,多条件的处理方案
如果文件很大,且要通过管道来grep,那么速度不够快。
例如 一个文件8G。
# 语句一
grep 查询单据成功 info.log
# 语句二
grep 查询单据成功 info.log | grep 66667777
当文件很大的时候,会发现grep是个逐渐处理的过程,找到的行会打印出来,再找到会继续打印。
如果使用管道,那么不会逐渐打印,第一个grep会把内容先缓存起来,通过第二个grep之后才会输出。 这时间肯定不短。 而且重新搜索,又要那么长时间。
解决方案:
分为2步,先存到文件,再grep。
grep 查询单据成功 info.log > a.txt
grep 66667777 a.txt
实测第一个语句速度蛮快的,第二个更快。而且a.txt复用起来方便。
这并没有使用新技术,属于技巧上的问题。
通配符
- 任意字符
? 任意单个字符
[abc] 集合内的任何单个字符
[a-c] 范围内的任何字符
[^ab]
不是集合内的任何字符
^c c开头的行
b$ b结尾的行
通配符例子
筛选日志文件:
# 所有日志文件
grep code *.log
# *的话,范围太大,6月十几号的日志文件
grep code localhost-2019-06-1?.log
# 6月所有的日志文件
grep code localhost-2019-06-??.log
小括号要转义么
不用。 要匹配小括号,直接输入即可。 输入左斜杠反而会报错。
# 正确
grep "(" info.log
# 错误
grep "\(" info.log
# 报错信息
grep: Unmatched ( or \(
转义字符
为什么要有转义字符,因为grep是支持正则表达式的,有些符号表示其他含义,所以如果要表示为字符,就需要转义。
常见的要转义的字符:
"
\
( 和 )
写法:
双引号
grep "\"" a.txt
右斜杠 \ ,这个比较特殊,如果要匹配\字符,需要这么写:
grep "\\\\" a.txt
为什么是4个右斜杠呢,因为前2个右斜杠解析为\转义符号,后2个右斜杠表示为\符号。
-l 只查找匹配到的文件
例如,有时不要内容,只想要匹配到的文件名,一个-l就可以解决。
grep -l aaa *.log; # 输出结果 a.txt
zgrep
zgrep -n 为什么会打印非常多
因为zgrep实测 -A -B -C无效,想打印前后日志怎么办呢?
zgrep -2 test.txt; # 这个可以打印上下两行
那么打印50行呢?
zgrep -50 test.txt; # 按道理应该打印上下50行,但是打起来没完没了,不知道怎么回事? TODO 也许手法有问题,再看看吧。
grep英文手册
man grep
即可查看。
man grep > grep.txt
即可输出到文件。
贴上来主要是如果要看原生说明,有个参考:
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)
NAME
grep, egrep, fgrep - print lines matching a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [OPTIONS] PATTERN [FILE...]
grep [OPTIONS] [-e PATTERN | -f FILE] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
grep searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if no files are named, or if a single hyphen-minus (-) is
given as file name) for lines containing a match to the given PATTERN. By default, grep prints the matching
lines.
In addition, two variant programs egrep and fgrep are available. egrep is the same as grep -E. fgrep is the same
as grep -F. Direct invocation as either egrep or fgrep is deprecated, but is provided to allow historical
applications that rely on them to run unmodified.
OPTIONS
Generic Program Information
--help Print a usage message briefly summarizing these command-line options and the bug-reporting address, then
exit.
-V, --version
Print the version number of grep to the standard output stream. This version number should be included in
all bug reports (see below).
Matcher Selection
-E, --extended-regexp
Interpret PATTERN as an extended regular expression (ERE, see below). (-E is specified by POSIX.)
-F, --fixed-strings, --fixed-regexp
Interpret PATTERN as a list of fixed strings, separated by newlines, any of which is to be matched. (-F is
specified by POSIX, --fixed-regexp is an obsoleted alias, please do not use it in new scripts.)
-G, --basic-regexp
Interpret PATTERN as a basic regular expression (BRE, see below). This is the default.
-P, --perl-regexp
Interpret PATTERN as a Perl regular expression. This is highly experimental and grep -P may warn of
unimplemented features.
Matching Control
-e PATTERN, --regexp=PATTERN
Use PATTERN as the pattern. This can be used to specify multiple search patterns, or to protect a pattern
beginning with a hyphen (-). (-e is specified by POSIX.)
-f FILE, --file=FILE
Obtain patterns from FILE, one per line. The empty file contains zero patterns, and therefore matches
nothing. (-f is specified by POSIX.)
-i, --ignore-case
Ignore case distinctions in both the PATTERN and the input files. (-i is specified by POSIX.)
-v, --invert-match
Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines. (-v is specified by POSIX.)
-w, --word-regexp
Select only those lines containing matches that form whole words. The test is that the matching substring
must either be at the beginning of the line, or preceded by a non-word constituent character. Similarly,
it must be either at the end of the line or followed by a non-word constituent character. Word-constituent
characters are letters, digits, and the underscore.
-x, --line-regexp
Select only those matches that exactly match the whole line. (-x is specified by POSIX.)
-y Obsolete synonym for -i.
General Output Control
-c, --count
Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching lines for each input file. With the -v,
--invert-match option (see below), count non-matching lines. (-c is specified by POSIX.)
--color[=WHEN], --colour[=WHEN]
Surround the matched (non-empty) strings, matching lines, context lines, file names, line numbers, byte
offsets, and separators (for fields and groups of context lines) with escape sequences to display them in
color on the terminal. The colors are defined by the environment variable GREP_COLORS. The deprecated
environment variable GREP_COLOR is still supported, but its setting does not have priority. WHEN is never,
always, or auto.
-L, --files-without-match
Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which no output would normally have
been printed. The scanning will stop on the first match.
-l, --files-with-matches
Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which output would normally have
been printed. The scanning will stop on the first match. (-l is specified by POSIX.)
-m NUM, --max-count=NUM
Stop reading a file after NUM matching lines. If the input is standard input from a regular file, and NUM
matching lines are output, grep ensures that the standard input is positioned to just after the last
matching line before exiting, regardless of the presence of trailing context lines. This enables a calling
process to resume a search. When grep stops after NUM matching lines, it outputs any trailing context
lines. When the -c or --count option is also used, grep does not output a count greater than NUM. When
the -v or --invert-match option is also used, grep stops after outputting NUM non-matching lines.
-o, --only-matching
Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with each such part on a separate output line.
-q, --quiet, --silent
Quiet; do not write anything to standard output. Exit immediately with zero status if any match is found,
even if an error was detected. Also see the -s or --no-messages option. (-q is specified by POSIX.)
-s, --no-messages
Suppress error messages about nonexistent or unreadable files. Portability note: unlike GNU grep, 7th
Edition Unix grep did not conform to POSIX, because it lacked -q and its -s option behaved like GNU grep's
-q option. USG-style grep also lacked -q but its -s option behaved like GNU grep. Portable shell scripts
should avoid both -q and -s and should redirect standard and error output to /dev/null instead. (-s is
specified by POSIX.)
Output Line Prefix Control
-b, --byte-offset
Print the 0-based byte offset within the input file before each line of output. If -o (--only-matching) is
specified, print the offset of the matching part itself.
-H, --with-filename
Print the file name for each match. This is the default when there is more than one file to search.
-h, --no-filename
Suppress the prefixing of file names on output. This is the default when there is only one file (or only
standard input) to search.
--label=LABEL
Display input actually coming from standard input as input coming from file LABEL. This is especially
useful when implementing tools like zgrep, e.g., gzip -cd foo.gz | grep --label=foo -H something. See also
the -H option.
-n, --line-number
Prefix each line of output with the 1-based line number within its input file. (-n is specified by POSIX.)
-T, --initial-tab
Make sure that the first character of actual line content lies on a tab stop, so that the alignment of tabs
looks normal. This is useful with options that prefix their output to the actual content: -H,-n, and -b.
In order to improve the probability that lines from a single file will all start at the same column, this
also causes the line number and byte offset (if present) to be printed in a minimum size field width.
-u, --unix-byte-offsets
Report Unix-style byte offsets. This switch causes grep to report byte offsets as if the file were a Unix-
style text file, i.e., with CR characters stripped off. This will produce results identical to running
grep on a Unix machine. This option has no effect unless -b option is also used; it has no effect on
platforms other than MS-DOS and MS-Windows.
-Z, --null
Output a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of the character that normally follows a file name.
For example, grep -lZ outputs a zero byte after each file name instead of the usual newline. This option
makes the output unambiguous, even in the presence of file names containing unusual characters like
newlines. This option can be used with commands like find -print0, perl -0, sort -z, and xargs -0 to
process arbitrary file names, even those that contain newline characters.
Context Line Control
-A NUM, --after-context=NUM
Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines. Places a line containing a group separator
(described under --group-separator) between contiguous groups of matches. With the -o or --only-matching
option, this has no effect and a warning is given.
-B NUM, --before-context=NUM
Print NUM lines of leading context before matching lines. Places a line containing a group separator
(described under --group-separator) between contiguous groups of matches. With the -o or --only-matching
option, this has no effect and a warning is given.
-C NUM, -NUM, --context=NUM
Print NUM lines of output context. Places a line containing a group separator (described under
--group-separator) between contiguous groups of matches. With the -o or --only-matching option, this has
no effect and a warning is given.
--group-separator=SEP
Use SEP as a group separator. By default SEP is double hyphen (--).
--no-group-separator
Use empty string as a group separator.
File and Directory Selection
-a, --text
Process a binary file as if it were text; this is equivalent to the --binary-files=text option.
--binary-files=TYPE
If the first few bytes of a file indicate that the file contains binary data, assume that the file is of
type TYPE. By default, TYPE is binary, and grep normally outputs either a one-line message saying that a
binary file matches, or no message if there is no match. If TYPE is without-match, grep assumes that a
binary file does not match; this is equivalent to the -I option. If TYPE is text, grep processes a binary
file as if it were text; this is equivalent to the -a option. Warning: grep --binary-files=text might
output binary garbage, which can have nasty side effects if the output is a terminal and if the terminal
driver interprets some of it as commands.
-D ACTION, --devices=ACTION
If an input file is a device, FIFO or socket, use ACTION to process it. By default, ACTION is read, which
means that devices are read just as if they were ordinary files. If ACTION is skip, devices are silently
skipped.
-d ACTION, --directories=ACTION
If an input file is a directory, use ACTION to process it. By default, ACTION is read, i.e., read
directories just as if they were ordinary files. If ACTION is skip, silently skip directories. If ACTION
is recurse, read all files under each directory, recursively, following symbolic links only if they are on
the command line. This is equivalent to the -r option.
--exclude=GLOB
Skip files whose base name matches GLOB (using wildcard matching). A file-name glob can use *, ?, and
[...] as wildcards, and \ to quote a wildcard or backslash character literally.
--exclude-from=FILE
Skip files whose base name matches any of the file-name globs read from FILE (using wildcard matching as
described under --exclude).
--exclude-dir=DIR
Exclude directories matching the pattern DIR from recursive searches.
-I Process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data; this is equivalent to the
--binary-files=without-match option.
--include=GLOB
Search only files whose base name matches GLOB (using wildcard matching as described under --exclude).
-r, --recursive
Read all files under each directory, recursively, following symbolic links only if they are on the command
line. This is equivalent to the -d recurse option.
-R, --dereference-recursive
Read all files under each directory, recursively. Follow all symbolic links, unlike -r.
Other Options
--line-buffered
Use line buffering on output. This can cause a performance penalty.
-U, --binary
Treat the file(s) as binary. By default, under MS-DOS and MS-Windows, grep guesses the file type by
looking at the contents of the first 32KB read from the file. If grep decides the file is a text file, it
strips the CR characters from the original file contents (to make regular expressions with ^ and $ work
correctly). Specifying -U overrules this guesswork, causing all files to be read and passed to the
matching mechanism verbatim; if the file is a text file with CR/LF pairs at the end of each line, this will
cause some regular expressions to fail. This option has no effect on platforms other than MS-DOS and MS-
Windows.
-z, --null-data
Treat the input as a set of lines, each terminated by a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of a
newline. Like the -Z or --null option, this option can be used with commands like sort -z to process
arbitrary file names.
REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
A regular expression is a pattern that describes a set of strings. Regular expressions are constructed
analogously to arithmetic expressions, by using various operators to combine smaller expressions.
grep understands three different versions of regular expression syntax: “basic,” “extended” and “perl.” In
GNU grep, there is no difference in available functionality between basic and extended syntaxes. In other
implementations, basic regular expressions are less powerful. The following description applies to extended
regular expressions; differences for basic regular expressions are summarized afterwards. Perl regular
expressions give additional functionality, and are documented in pcresyntax(3) and pcrepattern(3), but may not be
available on every system.
The fundamental building blocks are the regular expressions that match a single character. Most characters,
including all letters and digits, are regular expressions that match themselves. Any meta-character with special
meaning may be quoted by preceding it with a backslash.
The period . matches any single character.
Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
A bracket expression is a list of characters enclosed by [ and ]. It matches any single character in that list;
if the first character of the list is the caret ^ then it matches any character not in the list. For example, the
regular expression [0123456789] matches any single digit.
Within a bracket expression, a range expression consists of two characters separated by a hyphen. It matches any
single character that sorts between the two characters, inclusive, using the locale's collating sequence and
character set. For example, in the default C locale, [a-d] is equivalent to [abcd]. Many locales sort characters
in dictionary order, and in these locales [a-d] is typically not equivalent to [abcd]; it might be equivalent to
[aBbCcDd], for example. To obtain the traditional interpretation of bracket expressions, you can use the C locale
by setting the LC_ALL environment variable to the value C.
Finally, certain named classes of characters are predefined within bracket expressions, as follows. Their names
are self explanatory, and they are [:alnum:], [:alpha:], [:cntrl:], [:digit:], [:graph:], [:lower:], [:print:],
[:punct:], [:space:], [:upper:], and [:xdigit:]. For example, [[:alnum:]] means the character class of numbers
and letters in the current locale. In the C locale and ASCII character set encoding, this is the same as
[0-9A-Za-z]. (Note that the brackets in these class names are part of the symbolic names, and must be included in
addition to the brackets delimiting the bracket expression.) Most meta-characters lose their special meaning
inside bracket expressions. To include a literal ] place it first in the list. Similarly, to include a literal ^
place it anywhere but first. Finally, to include a literal - place it last.
Anchoring
The caret ^ and the dollar sign $ are meta-characters that respectively match the empty string at the beginning
and end of a line.
The Backslash Character and Special Expressions
The symbols \< and \> respectively match the empty string at the beginning and end of a word. The symbol \b
matches the empty string at the edge of a word, and \B matches the empty string provided it's not at the edge of a
word. The symbol \w is a synonym for [_[:alnum:]] and \W is a synonym for [^_[:alnum:]].
Repetition
A regular expression may be followed by one of several repetition operators:
? The preceding item is optional and matched at most once.
* The preceding item will be matched zero or more times.
+ The preceding item will be matched one or more times.
{n} The preceding item is matched exactly n times.
{n,} The preceding item is matched n or more times.
{,m} The preceding item is matched at most m times. This is a GNU extension.
{n,m} The preceding item is matched at least n times, but not more than m times.
Concatenation
Two regular expressions may be concatenated; the resulting regular expression matches any string formed by
concatenating two substrings that respectively match the concatenated expressions.
Alternation
Two regular expressions may be joined by the infix operator |; the resulting regular expression matches any string
matching either alternate expression.
Precedence
Repetition takes precedence over concatenation, which in turn takes precedence over alternation. A whole
expression may be enclosed in parentheses to override these precedence rules and form a subexpression.
Back References and Subexpressions
The back-reference \n, where n is a single digit, matches the substring previously matched by the nth
parenthesized subexpression of the regular expression.
Basic vs Extended Regular Expressions
In basic regular expressions the meta-characters ?, +, {, |, (, and ) lose their special meaning; instead use the
backslashed versions \?, \+, \{, \|, \(, and \).
Traditional egrep did not support the { meta-character, and some egrep implementations support \{ instead, so
portable scripts should avoid { in grep -E patterns and should use [{] to match a literal {.
GNU grep -E attempts to support traditional usage by assuming that { is not special if it would be the start of an
invalid interval specification. For example, the command grep -E '{1' searches for the two-character string {1
instead of reporting a syntax error in the regular expression. POSIX allows this behavior as an extension, but
portable scripts should avoid it.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The behavior of grep is affected by the following environment variables.
The locale for category LC_foo is specified by examining the three environment variables LC_ALL, LC_foo, LANG, in
that order. The first of these variables that is set specifies the locale. For example, if LC_ALL is not set,
but LC_MESSAGES is set to pt_BR, then the Brazilian Portuguese locale is used for the LC_MESSAGES category. The C
locale is used if none of these environment variables are set, if the locale catalog is not installed, or if grep
was not compiled with national language support (NLS).
GREP_OPTIONS
This variable specifies default options to be placed in front of any explicit options. For example, if
GREP_OPTIONS is '--binary-files=without-match --directories=skip', grep behaves as if the two options
--binary-files=without-match and --directories=skip had been specified before any explicit options. Option
specifications are separated by whitespace. A backslash escapes the next character, so it can be used to
specify an option containing whitespace or a backslash.
GREP_COLOR
This variable specifies the color used to highlight matched (non-empty) text. It is deprecated in favor of
GREP_COLORS, but still supported. The mt, ms, and mc capabilities of GREP_COLORS have priority over it.
It can only specify the color used to highlight the matching non-empty text in any matching line (a
selected line when the -v command-line option is omitted, or a context line when -v is specified). The
default is 01;31, which means a bold red foreground text on the terminal's default background.
GREP_COLORS
Specifies the colors and other attributes used to highlight various parts of the output. Its value is a
colon-separated list of capabilities that defaults to ms=01;31:mc=01;31:sl=:cx=:fn=35:ln=32:bn=32:se=36
with the rv and ne boolean capabilities omitted (i.e., false). Supported capabilities are as follows.
sl= SGR substring for whole selected lines (i.e., matching lines when the -v command-line option is
omitted, or non-matching lines when -v is specified). If however the boolean rv capability and the
-v command-line option are both specified, it applies to context matching lines instead. The
default is empty (i.e., the terminal's default color pair).
cx= SGR substring for whole context lines (i.e., non-matching lines when the -v command-line option is
omitted, or matching lines when -v is specified). If however the boolean rv capability and the -v
command-line option are both specified, it applies to selected non-matching lines instead. The
default is empty (i.e., the terminal's default color pair).
rv Boolean value that reverses (swaps) the meanings of the sl= and cx= capabilities when the -v
command-line option is specified. The default is false (i.e., the capability is omitted).
mt=01;31
SGR substring for matching non-empty text in any matching line (i.e., a selected line when the -v
command-line option is omitted, or a context line when -v is specified). Setting this is equivalent
to setting both ms= and mc= at once to the same value. The default is a bold red text foreground
over the current line background.
ms=01;31
SGR substring for matching non-empty text in a selected line. (This is only used when the -v
command-line option is omitted.) The effect of the sl= (or cx= if rv) capability remains active
when this kicks in. The default is a bold red text foreground over the current line background.
mc=01;31
SGR substring for matching non-empty text in a context line. (This is only used when the -v
command-line option is specified.) The effect of the cx= (or sl= if rv) capability remains active
when this kicks in. The default is a bold red text foreground over the current line background.
fn=35 SGR substring for file names prefixing any content line. The default is a magenta text foreground
over the terminal's default background.
ln=32 SGR substring for line numbers prefixing any content line. The default is a green text foreground
over the terminal's default background.
bn=32 SGR substring for byte offsets prefixing any content line. The default is a green text foreground
over the terminal's default background.
se=36 SGR substring for separators that are inserted between selected line fields (:), between context
line fields, (-), and between groups of adjacent lines when nonzero context is specified (--). The
default is a cyan text foreground over the terminal's default background.
ne Boolean value that prevents clearing to the end of line using Erase in Line (EL) to Right (\33[K)
each time a colorized item ends. This is needed on terminals on which EL is not supported. It is
otherwise useful on terminals for which the back_color_erase (bce) boolean terminfo capability does
not apply, when the chosen highlight colors do not affect the background, or when EL is too slow or
causes too much flicker. The default is false (i.e., the capability is omitted).
Note that boolean capabilities have no =... part. They are omitted (i.e., false) by default and become
true when specified.
See the Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) section in the documentation of the text terminal that is used for
permitted values and their meaning as character attributes. These substring values are integers in decimal
representation and can be concatenated with semicolons. grep takes care of assembling the result into a
complete SGR sequence (\33[...m). Common values to concatenate include 1 for bold, 4 for underline, 5 for
blink, 7 for inverse, 39 for default foreground color, 30 to 37 for foreground colors, 90 to 97 for
16-color mode foreground colors, 38;5;0 to 38;5;255 for 88-color and 256-color modes foreground colors, 49
for default background color, 40 to 47 for background colors, 100 to 107 for 16-color mode background
colors, and 48;5;0 to 48;5;255 for 88-color and 256-color modes background colors.
LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LANG
These variables specify the locale for the LC_COLLATE category, which determines the collating sequence
used to interpret range expressions like [a-z].
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG
These variables specify the locale for the LC_CTYPE category, which determines the type of characters,
e.g., which characters are whitespace.
LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG
These variables specify the locale for the LC_MESSAGES category, which determines the language that grep
uses for messages. The default C locale uses American English messages.
POSIXLY_CORRECT
If set, grep behaves as POSIX requires; otherwise, grep behaves more like other GNU programs. POSIX
requires that options that follow file names must be treated as file names; by default, such options are
permuted to the front of the operand list and are treated as options. Also, POSIX requires that
unrecognized options be diagnosed as “illegal”, but since they are not really against the law the default
is to diagnose them as “invalid”. POSIXLY_CORRECT also disables _N_GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_, described
below.
_N_GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_
(Here N is grep's numeric process ID.) If the ith character of this environment variable's value is 1, do
not consider the ith operand of grep to be an option, even if it appears to be one. A shell can put this
variable in the environment for each command it runs, specifying which operands are the results of file
name wildcard expansion and therefore should not be treated as options. This behavior is available only
with the GNU C library, and only when POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set.
EXIT STATUS
Normally, the exit status is 0 if selected lines are found and 1 otherwise. But the exit status is 2 if an error
occurred, unless the -q or --quiet or --silent option is used and a selected line is found. Note, however, that
POSIX only mandates, for programs such as grep, cmp, and diff, that the exit status in case of error be greater
than 1; it is therefore advisable, for the sake of portability, to use logic that tests for this general condition
instead of strict equality with 2.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1998-2000, 2002, 2005-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
BUGS
Reporting Bugs
Email bug reports to <bug-grep@gnu.org>, a mailing list whose web page is
<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grep>. grep's Savannah bug tracker is located at
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grep>.
Known Bugs
Large repetition counts in the {n,m} construct may cause grep to use lots of memory. In addition, certain other
obscure regular expressions require exponential time and space, and may cause grep to run out of memory.
Back-references are very slow, and may require exponential time.
SEE ALSO
Regular Manual Pages
awk(1), cmp(1), diff(1), find(1), gzip(1), perl(1), sed(1), sort(1), xargs(1), zgrep(1), read(2), pcre(3),
pcresyntax(3), pcrepattern(3), terminfo(5), glob(7), regex(7).
POSIX Programmer's Manual Page
grep(1p).
TeXinfo Documentation
The full documentation for grep is maintained as a TeXinfo manual, which you can read at
http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/. If the info and grep programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info grep
should give you access to the complete manual.
NOTES
This man page is maintained only fitfully; the full documentation is often more up-to-date.
GNU's not Unix, but Unix is a beast; its plural form is Unixen.
User Commands GNU grep 2.20 GREP(1)