Print lines matching a pattern |
-I Don’t match the pattern in binary files. |
-F, --fixed-strings Use fixed strings for patterns (don’t interpret pattern as a regex). |
-n, --line-number Prefix the line number to matching lines. |
-e The next parameter is the pattern. This option has to be used for patterns starting with - and should be used in scripts passing user input to grep. Multiple patterns are combined by or. |