fgrep COMMAND

fgrep COMMAND:
fgrep command is used to search one or more files for lines that match the given string or word. fgrep is faster than grep search, but less flexible: it can only find fixed text, not regular expressions.

SYNTAX:
The Syntax is
fgrep [options] pattern [file]

OPTIONS:

-a	Don't suppress output lines with binary data, treat as text.
-b	Print the byte offset of input file before each line of output.
-c	Print's the count of line matched.
-h	Print matched lines but not filenames.
-i	Ignore changes in case; consider upper- and lower-case letters equivalent.
-n	Print line and line number.
-q	Prints in quite mode, prints nothing.
-r	Recursively read all files in directories and in subdirectories found.
-v	Prints all the lines that do not match.
-V	Print Version.
-w	Match on whole word only.

EXAMPLE:
Lets assume that we have a file file1.txt and it has the following data.

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1. To search and print the lines containing forum :
   

   fgrep 'forum' file1.txt

   fgrep command prints the output as.
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