How does one simulate the old unix grep -S strict functionality in linux

Question

I am grepping the output of a command and I wish to only return specific, strict results.

I remember some iteration of grep had a strict option -s/--strict.

For example, grep -s bytes would only return entries which mentioned the word "bytes" and not every word that contains bytes, like "megabytes", "kilobytes", etc.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '09 at 15:26

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   -w, --word-regexp
          Select  only those lines containing matches that form whole
          words.  The test is that the matching
          substring must either be at the beginning of the line, or 
          preceded  by  a  non-word  constituent
          character.   Similarly,  it  must be either at the end of the
          line or followed by a non-word con-
          stituent character.  Word-constituent characters are
          letters, digits, and the underscore.

answered May 19 '09 at 15:26

jj33

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Fantastic, sir. I salute you and your thorough grep knowledge. :) – Nathan Milford May 19 '09 at 15:59
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yes, my ability to run "man grep" and search for "word" is, indeed, the stuff of legend =) – jj33 May 19 '09 at 17:00

How does one simulate the old unix grep -S strict functionality in linux

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