cdubet

 Profile Answers by cdubet 

• Mar 14th, 2008

 

find : locate a file matching conditionsexfind /src -name "*.c" : list all files contains in /src matching *.cgrep : search a text pattern in (a) file(s)ex grep abcd toto.csed : substitute/replace strings. usually used in script. use the unix regular expressions (ex [0-9] = all digits)as usually in unix, you can mix commands ex find / -exec grep txt {} ; list all files containing txt

Mustafa

• Jun 14th, 2014

 

Find command is used to find a file.
grep command is used to find a contain or string in a file
sed command is used for filter purpose, if want to replace a word, want to print particular line of the file etc

Mohan Trichy

 Profile Answers by Mohan Trichy 

• Dec 27th, 2014

 

find Command is used to find the file.

grep Command is used to search the content in the file.

sed command is used to search, as well as modify the content in the file.