santhanam

• Jun 28th, 2007

 

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.

vishpri

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• Mar 9th, 2008

 

grep command can be used onlywith files .it doesn't work for directories

find command works with both files and directories.

wow_suraj

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• May 7th, 2008

 

'grep' and 'find' both are used as matching pattern keywords. Whereas the difference between both the keywords are of their uses. 'find' command is used in case we need to locate any file name or diresctory name withing a directory. Whereas the 'grep' command is used to match a text appearing in a file.

cmanne

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• Sep 2nd, 2009

 

GREP is for finding out the string pattern inside a file

FIND is an utility for searching file and folders based on size, access time, modification time.

The basic difference is FIND is for searching files and directories at system level while GREP is for searching a pattern inside a file.

goksn

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• Sep 6th, 2009

 

Grep usually takes the input from another command (usually content of file or folders etc) where Find works without taking input from another command.

Find is more powerful thatn grep with many options like

-access time
-modification time
-user name
-terminal name
-folder
-file
-character file
etc..

Also, with find command we can execute certain actions (like removing the found files etc)

Vidhya

• Jul 21st, 2011

 

Find is for finding files , Like you need to find a file named passwd
kk

find / -name "passwd"

output
/etc/passwd
there are several , U have to check that

If we need to check inside the file we need "grep"
grep is a pattern searching tool
like
grep hari /etc/passwd.

what is a pattern ?
do this
ls -l
rwx rwx rwx and lot here file 1
drwxrwxrwx and lot more file 2
.
.
so forth,
if u need to display a particular pattern like Directory "d"
u can type like that
ls -l | grep 'd'
it will shows all directory
| called PipE, makes input of one command to the output of another one. it is a special file system.
it will display like that

Rajesh

• Jul 22nd, 2011

 

Grep Searches the content of a file and whereas find only searches files and directories

suresh

• Feb 22nd, 2015

 

what is difference between grep -i and grep -v?

Nandana

• Mar 9th, 2015

 

grep -i : Ignore case sensitive
grep -v : Display all lines that do NOT match

SK

• Apr 16th, 2015

 

Grep is searching a pattern or string/text in the files, where will return the list of files that contains that string pattern with occurrence.

The Find the other hand, is a searching command for files/directory name based on provided regular expression.

Gaurav.khurana

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• Apr 19th, 2015

 

grep -i Udzial <-- will do a case in-sensitive search for the word udzial
grep -v share <-- will ignore those line which have the word share in them

valli

• Apr 21st, 2015

 

grep -i (it will display both uppercase and lower case)
grep -v(invert search)
invert search (it will display other than that specified string in grep)

pinnaka

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• Jun 30th, 2015

 

Answer is b
grep command is used to find strings in a file.
find command is used to find a file in a directory or to find directory in the list of directories.

vijay

• Jan 2nd, 2016

 

b)grep searches in a file whereas find searches for files and directories.

Subrata Chakrabortty

• Mar 9th, 2016

 

grep is the short form of global regular expressions, so it generally searches for a word in a file or in a list of files. On the other hand find can find a regular file, directory file and special file based on name, i-node number, type, modification time, access time, change time. We can perform certain functions also (like rm, cp, mv) by using exec option with find command.

sandip

• Sep 4th, 2016

 

In find command we can search all type of file or directory.
like: inode number wise, size wise, name wise, permission wise etc.

Parth Gandhi

• Dec 6th, 2017

 

c) both a and b