What is the difference between grep & find?
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
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 |
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 |
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.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 0 No |
What scripting languages do you know?
what is difference between kernel and shell?
why unix command can be divided into internal and external command
What is paging?
how to create a file system quota in HP-UX?
What does init do? What does inetd do?
What is the difference between hard link & softlink?
Am using Mac OS 10.4.11 on an Imac (PPC) Internal hard disk got named disk0s3 and will not mount. What commands can be used in TERMINAL to rename the internal hard disk to C96?
I am trying to unmount a remote file system,but I do not unmount that file system.How can i know the user name (i.e.,user who is using that file system).....write the command with argument
Could you tell something about the Unix System Kernel?
What is YACC?
What are the events done by the Kernel after a process is being swapped out from the main memory?