Command to locate the word within a text file
Last Updated on Friday, 01 April 2011 18:27
Question:
Give the exact command that can locate the word "to" (without quotes) in a file named "file1" (without quotes), but does not display words like "total" or "stone" that are in the same file.
Answer:
-w option of a grep commad allows user to search a content of a file for a words, where word is separated on both sides by a white space.
grep -w to file1
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