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Use grep to match on the beginning of a line

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Hi

Just a simple one but a syntax that I can never remember when I need to so a quick post may help jog mine, and your, memory.  This grep syntax is for matching lines from a text file that begin with a particular word or expression :

$ grep -w '^Word' input_file.txt > output_file.txt
This will search input_file.txt for lines that begin with ‘Word’ and then redirect the output to output_file.txt.