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Data search and extraction

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Data search and extraction

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to learn how to use Grep to search for data within files. So what we're going to do first is I'm going to use a file that's sitting in my documents drive. So if I hit LS, you'll be able to see what files I have and I have one known as fruitstand.txt. Now, fruitstand.txt is simply a file that contains a list of names, fruit, and $1 amount. So if I want to display that to the screen, I can just type cat and then fruitstand.txt. Now one thing to note here is you'll notice how quickly I was able to type fruit stand. The way I did that is I used a feature known as auto complete. In Linux, when you're typing a command or a file name or a directory, if you hit the Tab key, if it knows what it is, it will guess and try to auto complete for you. So in this case, I only typed in cat and then f,r from fruit hit tab and it fully was able to display that to the screen for me. And now I…

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