How can I select lines containing specific values?

head and tail select rows, cut selects columns, and grep selects lines according to what they contain. In its simplest form, grep takes a piece of text followed by one or more filenames and prints all of the lines in those files that contain that text. For example, grep bicuspid seasonal/winter.csv prints lines from winter.csv that contain "bicuspid".

grep can search for patterns as well; we will explore those in the next course. What's more important right now is some of grep's more common flags:

• -c: print a count of matching lines rather than the lines themselves
• -h: do not print the names of files when searching multiple files
• -i: ignore case (e.g., treat "Regression" and "regression" as matches)
• -l: print the names of files that contain matches, not the matches
• -n: print line numbers for matching lines
• -v: invert the match, i.e., only show lines that don't match