Multiple choice technology operating systems

Command that is used to find text matches from a file?

  1. find

  2. match

  3. grep

  4. use
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C Correct answer
Explanation

grep is the standard Unix command for searching text patterns within files. Its name comes from 'ed' editor command 'g/re/p' (globally search for a regular expression and print). grep searches for specified patterns and prints matching lines, making it the fundamental tool for text searching in Unix/Linux systems.

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