And one final great grep feature: recursive search. Running “grep -r pattern” will search all files within your current ...

The grep command can search for and list Linux files based on strings you are looking for and add the context of surrounding text. The grep command can help you find Linux files containing the string ...

The everlastingly useful grep command can change its character with the flip of a switch to help you find things. The grep command – likely one of the first ten commands that every Unix user comes to ...

With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix command line utilities to handle more ...

While other scripting languages have gained popularity, Perl remains a popular choice due to its robust text processing ...

You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By ...

Ooooh, great article to wake up to. I find the following alias commands, which I set system wide in /etc/profile.d/custom.sh, on my primary file server and anything ...

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Wow. It’s amazing we ever made it out of the 20th century. It’s like reading about farmers who would plow by hand. I remember the epiphany (long time ago) of discovering how awk solved my problem of ...