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It's a command line tool which filters for all lines containing the query. So something like
cat log.txt | grep Error5
Would output only lines containing Error5
You can just do
In the back of my mind I know this is there, but the
cat | greppattern is just muscle memory at this pointI've been 'told off' so many times by the internet for my cat and grep combos that I still do it, then I remove the cat, it still works, and I feel better. shrug