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GNU GREP and RIPGREP
Example based guide to mastering GNU grep and ripgrep.
The book also includes exercises to test your understanding, which is presented together as a single file in this repo - Exercises.md
For solutions to the exercises, see Exercise_solutions.md.
See Version_changes.md to keep track of changes made to the book.
E-book
You can purchase the book using these links:
- https://gumroad.com/l/gnugrep_ripgrep
- https://leanpub.com/gnugrep_ripgrep
- You can also get the book as part of Magical one-liners bundle from https://gumroad.com/l/oneliners or https://leanpub.com/b/oneliners
- You can also get the book as part of Awesome Regex bundle from https://leanpub.com/b/regex or https://gumroad.com/l/regex
- See https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/ for list of other books
For a preview of the book, see sample chapters
The book can also be viewed as a single markdown file in this repo. See my blogpost on generating pdf from markdown using pandoc if you are interested in the ebook creation process.
For web version of the book, visit https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep/
Feedback
Please open an issue if you spot any typo/errors.
I'd also highly appreciate your feedback about the book.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47406700-gnu-grep-and-ripgrep
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Frequently used options
- BRE/ERE Regular Expressions
- Context matching
- Recursive search
- Miscellaneous options
- Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
- Gotchas and Tricks
- ripgrep
- Further Reading
Acknowledgements
- GNU grep documentation — manual and examples
- ripgrep — user guide and examples
-
stackoverflow and unix.stackexchange — for getting answers to pertinent questions on
bash
,grep
and other commands -
tex.stackexchange — for help on
pandoc
andtex
related questions - Cover image
- softwareengineering.stackexchange and skolakoda for programming quotes
- Warning and Info icons by Amada44 under public domain
-
Andrew Gallant (author of
ripgrep
) and mikeblas for critical feedback -
mdBook — for web version of the book
- mdBook-pagetoc — for adding table of contents for each chapter
- minify-html — for minifying html files
Special thanks to all my friends and online acquaintances for their help, support and encouragement, especially during difficult times.
License
The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file