## 6. Finding Things
### a) How to select lines matching patterns in text files...
To find information within files, you use a command called `grep`.
-| Example command | Description |
-|-----------------|-------------|
+| Example command | Description |
+|--------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `grep [options] day haiku.txt` | finds every instance of the string `day` in the file haiku.txt and pipes it to standard output | |
-|--------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+
+#### a.1) Commonly used `grep` options
+
+| | `grep` options |
+|------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `-E` | tells grep you will be using a regular expression. Enclose the regular expression in quotes. _Note:_ the power of `grep` comes from using regular expressions. Please see the regular expressions sheet for examples |
-| `-i` | makes matching case-insensitive |
-| `-n` | limits the number of lines that match to the first n matches |
-| `-v` | shows lines that do not match the pattern (inverts the match) |
-| `-w` | outputs instances where the pattern is a whole word |
+| `-i` | makes matching case-insensitive |
+| `-n` | limits the number of lines that match to the first n matches |
+| `-v` | shows lines that do not match the pattern (inverts the match) |
+| `-w` | outputs instances where the pattern is a whole word |
### b) How to find files with certain properties...
To find file and directory names, you use a command called `find`