What is the difference between grep & find?
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Answer / chandra (acs)
grep is used to search for string in a file
find is used to searche files or directories
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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.
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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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