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What is the difference between grep & find?

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What is the difference between grep & find? ..

Answer / chandra (acs)

grep is used to search for string in a file
find is used to searche files or directories

Is This Answer Correct ?    150 Yes 10 No

What is the difference between grep & find? ..

Answer / mahesh raghunandanan

grep is used for searching text patterns within a file which
supports regular expression.only fgrep is used to find
string in an expression.



find is a file locator.
used to search certain files or directories.

Is This Answer Correct ?    74 Yes 11 No

What is the difference between grep & find? ..

Answer / siva

Grep is used to find strings in a file.
Find is used to find a file in a directory or to find directory in the list of directories.

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