[SOLVED] using grep and find command

[shariefbe]

hello,

i am new to linux....i dont know how to use "grep" command and "find" command...i searched in internet..but cant find the solution clearly...can anyone help me...what is the syntax to find the files using "find" command and find pattern using "grep" command.....Thanks in advance.

[Roxoff]

use the installed manual, try:

man find
man grep

the one for grep has quite a good intro to regular expressions that can be quite helpful for beginners and experts alike.

Incidentally you can use 'man' with any command you'd type at the prompts, most have some information about them, and there are many that help with config files too. Try, for instance, doing 'man man'.

[shariefbe]

yes..i got...but both "find" and "grep" seems same...what is the difference?

[Roxoff]

So you read the man pages for each and thought they were the same?

There is some similarity between the commands, that is true. But 'find' is a tool to search the filesystem, while 'grep' is a tool to search for regular expressions in bigger streams of text.

[shariefbe]

ya...thank you...now i understood...thanks a lot