\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{TME520 (TME520)} \pdfinfo{ /Title (grep-english.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (TME520 (TME520)) /Subject (grep (english) Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{A35B95} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F9F4F8} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{grep (english) Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{TME520 (TME520)} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/20978/cs/4065/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}TME520 (TME520) \\ \uline{cheatography.com/tme520} \\ \uline{\seqsplit{tme520}.com} \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 4th May, 2015.\\ Updated 25th February, 2020.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Usage}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{17.67cm}}{{\bf{Grep standard output (i.e. a stream of text)}}} \tn \mymulticolumn{1}{x{17.67cm}}{\hspace*{6 px}\rule{2px}{6px}\hspace*{6 px}grep {[}{\emph{-options}}{]} {\emph{'string'}}} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{17.67cm}}{{\bf{Grep the content of a file}}} \tn \mymulticolumn{1}{x{17.67cm}}{\hspace*{6 px}\rule{2px}{6px}\hspace*{6 px}grep {[}{\emph{-options}}{]} {\emph{'string'}} {\emph{filename}}} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{17.67cm}}{Wildcards are accepted in {\emph{filename}}.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{7.5915 cm} x{1.8557 cm} x{7.4228 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{General Regular Expression Processor}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Operation}} & {\bf{Option}} & {\bf{Example}} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Find a string in 1 or more files}} & & grep 'string' filename1 filename2 ... filename{\emph{n}} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Case insensitive search}} & i & grep -i 'string' filename \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Use regular expressions (regex)}} & & grep 'regex' filename \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Look for words}} & w & grep -w 'word' filename \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Display {\emph{n}} lines after matching string}} & A & grep -A n 'string' filename \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Display {\emph{n}} lines before matching string}} & B & grep -B n 'string' filename \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Display {\emph{n}} lines around matching string}} & C & grep -C n 'string' filename \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 3) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Recursive grep}} & r & grep -r \seqsplit{'hackers-club.cn'} \seqsplit{/var/log/apache2/archives/} \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 4) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Return all lines which don't match the pattern}} & v & grep -v 'warning' /var/log/syslog \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 3) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Use regex}} & e & grep -e 'string1' -e 'string2' filename \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 3) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{7.5915 cm} x{1.8557 cm} x{7.4228 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{General Regular Expression Processor (cont)}} \tn % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & & grep -{}-regexp 'string' filename \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Return lines starting with 'al'}} & & grep -e '\textasciicircum{}al' filename \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Use extended regex}} & E & grep -E \seqsplit{'apache|wheel|root'} filename \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Get lines containing 1+ w}} & & grep -E 'w+' filename \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Get lines with 3 w in a row (www)}} & & grep -E 'w\{3\}' filename \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 3) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Get lines containing between 3 and 6 m in a row}} & & grep -E 'm\{3,6\}' filename \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 3) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Get lines containing jason or jackson}} & & grep -E 'ja(s|cks)on' filename \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 3) % Row 18 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Count results}} & c & grep -c 'error' /var/log/syslog \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 2) % Row 19 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Display filename}} & l & grep -l 'string' /var/log/* \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 2) % Row 20 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Only show the matching part of the string}} & o & grep -o 'string' filename \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 3) % Row 21 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Show line number}} & n & grep -n 'string' filename \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{17.67cm}}{{\bf{About grep -E}}: In basic regular expressions the meta-characters '?', '+', '\{', '|', '(', and ')' lose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed versions '\textbackslash{}?', '\textbackslash{}+', '\textbackslash{}\{', '\textbackslash{}|', '\textbackslash{}(', and '\textbackslash{})'. \newline \newline GNU grep -E emulates classic meta-characters. The command 'grep -E '\{1'' searches for the 2-character string '\{1' instead of reporting an error. POSIX allows this behavior as an extension, but portable scripts should avoid it.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{5.5264 cm} x{11.7436 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Regular expressions : wildcards}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{.}} & Any character. \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{?}} & Optional and can only occur once. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{*}} & Optional and can occur more than once. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{bb\}\}{\bf{+}} & \{\{bb\}\}Required and can occur more than once. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{\{n\}}} & Previous item appears exactly {\emph{n}} times. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{\{n,\}}} & Previous item appears {\emph{n}} times or more. \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{\{,m\}}} & Previous item appears {\emph{n}} times maximum. \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{bb\}\}{\bf{\{n,m\}}} & \{\{bb\}\}Previous item appears between {\emph{n}} and {\emph{m}} times. \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{{[}:alpha:{]}}} & Any lower and upper case letter. \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{{[}:digit:{]}}} & Any number. \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{{[}:alnum:{]}}} & Any lower and upper case letter or digit. \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{bb\}\}{\bf{{[}:space:{]}}} & \{\{bb\}\}Any whitespace. \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{{[}A-Za-z{]}}} & Any lower and upper case letter. \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 2) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{{[}0-9{]}}} & Any number. \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 1) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{{[}0-9A-Za-z{]}}} & Any lower and upper case letter or digit. \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{p{1.687 cm} x{4.7236 cm} x{10.4594 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Regular expressions : anchors and positions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{\textasciicircum{}}} & Beginning of line. & grep '\textasciicircum{}Once upon a time' \seqsplit{/home/livres/lovestory.txt} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{\$}} & End of line. & grep 'divorced.\$' \seqsplit{/home/livres/lovestory.txt} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{\textasciicircum{}\$}} & Empty line. & \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{\textbackslash{}\textless{}}} & Start of word. & grep '\textbackslash{}\textless{}love\textbackslash{}\textgreater{}' /home/manga/seinen.txt \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{\textbackslash{}\textgreater{}}} & End of word. & \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{p{1.727 cm} x{15.543 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Characters to escape}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{} & . \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {[} & \textasciicircum{} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \$ & ' \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} * & - (start of line only) \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \end{document}