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
See Version_changes.md to keep track of changes made to the book.
You can purchase the book using these links:
- https://gumroad.com/l/gnugrep_ripgrep
- https://leanpub.com/gnugrep_ripgrep
- https://www.instamojo.com/learnbyexample/gnu-grep-and-ripgrep/
For a preview of the book, see sample chapters
- 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
The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file