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

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Frequently used options
4. BRE/ERE Regular Expressions
5. Context matching
6. Recursive search
7. Miscellaneous options
8. Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
9. Gotchas and Tricks
10. ripgrep
11. Further Reading

The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file