FGREP(1) TOOLS Programmer's Manual FGREP(1) NAME fgrep - search a file for a fixed character string SYNOPSIS fgrep [ option ] ... string [ file ] ... DESCRIPTION Fgrep searchs the input files (standard input default) for lines matching a string. Normally, each line found is copied to the standard output. The following options are recognized. -v All lines but those matching are printed. -c Only a count of matching lines is printed. -l The names of files with matching lines are listed (once) separated by newlines. -n Each line is preceded by its relative line number in the file. In all cases the file name is shown if there is more than one input file.