What does grep classifier in Open vSwitch mean?

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I use ovs-ofctl dump-tables s_id when I want to show the flow table stats. Sometimes I notice 'grep classifier' is used as (ovs-ofctl dump-tables s_id | grep classifier). What does grep classifier mean?

Thank you.

https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html#Introduction — melpomene, Dec 13 '16 at 00:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 13 '16 at 08:17

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man grep

grep searches input files for lines containing a match to a given pattern list.

answered Dec 13 '16 at 08:17

What does grep classifier in Open vSwitch mean?

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