In Linux, How do I display lines that contain a string in a text file, such as:
search "my string" file_name How do I make the search case sensitive/insensitive? And how do I also display the line numbers?
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grep -n "my string" file_name will do for your particular query. GREP is by default case sensitive in nature and to make it case insensitive you can add -i option to it. The -n option displays the line numbers. For other myriad options, I recommend
man grep for more interesting pattern matching capability of GREP.
#!/bin/bash cd $HOME/Desktop s=xda m=$(grep -n "$s" $HOME/Desktop/tt.txt ) if [ "$m" = "$s" ] ;then echo "success" else echo "fail" fi 
- 1Looks like this is wrong answer.Alexander Tolkachev– Alexander Tolkachev2018-03-29 11:19:58 +00:00Commented Mar 29, 2018 at 11:19
- 1Also, single letter variable names are bad. This code snippet would be much more readable with better naming.chicks– chicks2018-03-29 16:39:50 +00:00Commented Mar 29, 2018 at 16:39