Use grep without -i flag

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hello @Mosh and everyoneđź‘‹.
in video 10 of chapter 3 when you use grep command without -i you said that because our search is case sensitive we didn’t see anything return in shell. but i run this command without -i flag and i see hello word returned:

root@cb100d72ce28:~# grep hello file1.txt
hello
root@cb100d72ce28:~#

my docker version is:

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If possible explain to me how I have the output in the console and you didn’t?
Is this because I am using a higher version or is there another reason?

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Hi,

What does file1.txt contain?
What is the expected output?

Regards.

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file1.txt contain this text

hello
how are you?

and i expected to nothing return because i did’t use -i flag but this command return hello in console

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So is it so odd that grep hello file1.txt outputs hello ?

What output do you get with this variant ?

grep Hello file1.txt

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nothing return in terminal

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So to me everything works as it should.

Let’s sum up:

You have a file names file1.txt which content is

hello
how are you?

The command

grep hello file1.txt outputs hello. Indeed there is a line which precisely contains hello hence it outputs.

Now if Hello is written with a capital letter, it does not output anything. Indeed as it is case sensitive it does not match anymore and nothing is output. Now if I add the -i switch I am telling grep to be case-insensitive and hello outputs

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I understand now. Thanks for your help​:pray::pray: