Grep Match Whole Word - At least in the example given the ^ will work. So your grep would look something like. Answered oct 3, 2012 at 23:57. Web depending on your real data, you could look for the word followed by a space: Web use \b to match on word boundaries, which will make your search match on whole words only. This will find only lines that contain your target word as a complete word. Now this does not work if you need to fin this in the middle of line but you werent very specific on this. For instance, it’s common practice to extract a specific piece of information from a text file. Grep 'deiauk ' file.txt if you know it has to be at the start of the line, check for it: This states that anything that starts with the word test1 as the first line.
Adding color and line numbers might help too. This will find only lines that contain your target word as a complete word. In linux, working with text data is a common task for administrators and other users. So your grep would look something like. At least in the example given the ^ will work. Web use \b to match on word boundaries, which will make your search match on whole words only. Grep 'deiauk ' file.txt if you know it has to be at the start of the line, check for it: Answered oct 3, 2012 at 23:57. For instance, it’s common practice to extract a specific piece of information from a text file. Now this does not work if you need to fin this in the middle of line but you werent very specific on this. Web depending on your real data, you could look for the word followed by a space: This states that anything that starts with the word test1 as the first line.