I teach new Linux users these four short, easy to remember commands early on. Learn what they are and how to use them.

Whenever you use a simple grep command to find a single word or phrase in a file, you run the risk of getting a lot of extra “stuff” you didn’t want to see. Grep for “not” and you get “nothing”, ...

The grep command is regarded as one of the most essential building blocks of command line automation. It is a search tool that can be used to perform basic text filtering and processing tasks on files ...

The simplest grep command looks like the one shown below. This “find string in file” command will show all the lines in the file that contain the string, even when that string is only part of a longer ...

The grep command is a powerful tool for searching for files or information. Learn some strategies for using it effectively. Windows search is not without certain charms, but when I need to find files ...

Carrying over from yesterday’s examination of the Ubuntu command line, today’s installment of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux is dedicated to ‘man’ and ‘grep’. These commands wield significant power, and ...

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 ...