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Visit https://youtu.be/MSbGokwHm-A for a short video about the book.\n\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"./images/grep_ls.png\" alt=\"CLI text processing with GNU grep and ripgrep ebook cover image\" /\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\nThe book also includes exercises to test your understanding, which are presented together as a single file in this repo — [Exercises.md](./exercises/Exercises.md).\n\nFor solutions to the exercises, see [Exercise_solutions.md](./exercises/Exercise_solutions.md).\n\nYou can also use [this interactive TUI app](https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/blob/main/GrepExercises) to practice some of the exercises from the book.\n\nSee [Version_changes.md](./Version_changes.md) to keep track of changes made to the book.\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n# E-book\n\n* You can purchase the pdf/epub versions of the book using these links:\n    * https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/gnugrep_ripgrep\n    * https://leanpub.com/gnugrep_ripgrep\n* You can also get the book as part of these bundles:\n    * **All books bundle** bundle from https://leanpub.com/b/learnbyexample-all-books or https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books\n    * **Magical one-liners** bundle from https://leanpub.com/b/oneliners or https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/oneliners\n    * **Awesome Regex** bundle from https://leanpub.com/b/regex or https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/regex\n* See https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/ for a list of other books\n\nFor a preview of the book, see [sample chapters](./sample_chapters/gnu_grep_sample.pdf).\n\nThe book can also be [viewed as a single markdown file in this repo](./gnu_grep.md). See my blogpost on [generating pdf/epub from markdown using pandoc](https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/) if you are interested in the ebook creation process.\n\nFor the web version of the book, visit https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep/\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n# Feedback and Contributing\n\n⚠️ ⚠️ Please DO NOT submit pull requests. Main reason being any modification requires changes in multiple places.\n\nI would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors.\n\nYou can reach me via:\n\n* Issue Manager: [https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep/issues](https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep/issues)\n* E-mail: `echo 'bGVhcm5ieWV4YW1wbGUubmV0QGdtYWlsLmNvbQo=' | base64 --decode`\n* Twitter: [https://twitter.com/learn_byexample](https://twitter.com/learn_byexample)\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n# Table of Contents\n\n1) Preface\n2) Introduction\n3) Frequently used options\n4) BRE/ERE Regular Expressions\n5) Context matching\n6) Recursive search\n7) Miscellaneous options\n8) Perl Compatible Regular Expressions\n9) Gotchas and Tricks\n10) ripgrep\n11) Further Reading\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n# Acknowledgements\n\n* [GNU grep documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html) — manual and examples\n* [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) — user guide and examples\n* [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/) and [unix.stackexchange](https://unix.stackexchange.com/) — for getting answers to pertinent questions on `grep` and related commands\n* [tex.stackexchange](https://tex.stackexchange.com/) — for help on [pandoc](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/) and `tex` related questions\n* [/r/commandline/](https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline), [/r/linux4noobs/](https://old.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/), [/r/linuxquestions/](https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/) and [/r/linux/](https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/) — helpful forums\n* [canva](https://www.canva.com/) — cover image\n* [oxipng](https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng), [pngquant](https://pngquant.org/) and [svgcleaner](https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner) — optimizing images\n* [Warning](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warning_icon.svg) and [Info](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Info_icon_002.svg) icons by [Amada44](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Amada44) under public domain\n* [carbon](https://carbon.now.sh/) — creating terminal screenshots with highlighted text\n* [Andrew Gallant](https://blog.burntsushi.net/about/) (author of `ripgrep`), [mikeblas](https://old.reddit.com/user/mikeblas) and [Pound-Hash](https://github.com/Pound-Hash) for critical feedback\n* [mdBook](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) — for web version of the book\n    * [mdBook-pagetoc](https://github.com/JorelAli/mdBook-pagetoc) — for adding table of contents for each chapter\n    * [minify-html](https://github.com/wilsonzlin/minify-html) — for minifying html files\n\nSpecial thanks to all my friends and online acquaintances for their help, support and encouragement, especially during difficult times.\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n# License\n\nThe book is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).\n\nThe code snippets are licensed under MIT, see [LICENSE](./LICENSE) file.\n\n","funding_links":[],"categories":["Shell","Tools"],"sub_categories":["Video Conference"],"project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Flearnbyexample%2Flearn_gnugrep_ripgrep","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Flearnbyexample%2Flearn_gnugrep_ripgrep","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Flearnbyexample%2Flearn_gnugrep_ripgrep/lists"}