Find if content exists in some file

Simple Search

Lets say we have to sarch if pluign exists in ~/.bashrc file, then we can use

grep -r plugin  ~/.bashrc

the output is

output

/Users/amar/.bashrc:# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-bash/plugins/*)
/Users/amar/.bashrc:# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-bash/custom/plugins/

Recursive Search

grep -R "domain" /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

# (1)
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:# as error documents.  e.g. admin@your-domain.com 

1. Output of the grep command

Finding exact text

Lets imagine we have a file named file.txt with below contents

File contents

$ cat file.txt 

Ottawa
is
an 
awesome
place
places
to
too
live

Below will find all words which have to

Simple search

$ grep to file.txt 

to
too

Finding the exact to

Find exact text

$grep -w to file.txt 

to

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