cURL and grep Tools

cURL

• A command-line tool for transferring files using HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, and more.
• Supports multiple protocols and formats.
• Can be used to download or upload files.

grep

• A command-line text search utility.
• Searches one or more input FILEs for lines that contain a match to the given PATTERN.
• Options include:
  • -E : Use extended regular expressions.
  • --help : Print a usage message.
  • -V : Print the version number of grep.
  • -e : Use patterns for matching.
  • -a : Process a binary file as if it were text.
  • -f : Get patterns from FILE.
  • -o : Print only matched parts of matching lines.
  • -r : Process files in directory, recursively.
  • -F : Interpret patterns as fixed strings.
  • -i : Ignore case distinctions in patterns.
  • etc.

Common Options

• --help : Print a usage message.
• -V : Print the version number of grep.
• -q : Quiet, do not write anything to output.

Examples

• Download a file using cURL: curl -O https://example.com/file.txt
• Search for a pattern in one or more files using grep: grep -i "pattern" file1 file2
• Recursively search for a pattern in all files in a directory: grep -ri "pattern" dir/

Resources

• cURL documentation: [insert link]
• grep manual: [insert link]

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