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Regex for PCRE, grep, ripgrep, and sed/grep whole word

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Section: grep, egrep, and ripgrep

grep whole word

bash
bash
grep -RInw 'error' ./logs
Explanation

`-R` recurses, `-I` skips binary, `-n` prints line numbers, and `-w` uses word boundaries.

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