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Shell script with same function as grep

Write a Shell script to perform same function as grep. We can write by using regular expressions or awk. Please give some hints.
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Is it a good idea to supplement shell script with perl purely for use of regex?

I'm looking for a simple way to utilize regex in a UNIX shell script where not every system will have perl extensions built into grep. What is really helpful about perl regex here is back/forward ...
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How can I retain the console input in mplayer when reading from stdin?

I'm playing around with the command line interface of mplayer. I'd like to script it in the following way find /some/path/ -type f | grep -vif blacklist | mplayer -shuffle -playlist - where ...
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How to search and replace text in all php-files in a directory and it's subdirectories

I am looking for a shell script that recursively traverses all .php files in a directory and performs a search & replace of a particular text pattern. The search pattern is quite long ( > 5000 ...
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How to use a value returned by a script in grep filter?

I'm on FreeBSD's csh. I want to form a row with domains of one user and then use this row to filter exim maillog to get only mail from/to this user's domains. I wrote a script to form a row from a ...
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Filtering on dates with grep and awk

I have created the alias below in my .bash_aliases file alias auth="grep \"$(date|awk '{print $2,$3}')\" /var/log/auth.log | grep -E '(BREAK-IN|Invalid user|Failed|refused|su|Illegal)'" ...