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2 Invoking grep

The general synopsis of the grep command line is

     grep options pattern input_file_names

There can be zero or more options. pattern will only be seen as such (and not as an input_file_name) if it wasn't already specified within options (by using the ‘-e pattern’ or ‘-f file’ options). There can be zero or more input_file_names.