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hello world!
 cartoons are good
 especially toon like tom (cat)
 what
 the number one song
 12221
 they love us
 I too
After saving file, issue following command,
 $ grep "too" demofile
 cartoons are good
 especially toon like tom (cat)
 I too
grep will locate all lines for the "too" pattern and print all (matched) such line on-screen. grep prints too, as well as cartoons and toon; because grep treat "too" as expression. Expression by grep is read as the letter t followed by o and so on. So if this expression is found any where on line its printed. grep don't understand words.
Syntax:
 grep "word-to-find" {file-name}
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