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. Here are two grep commands that will do ...

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 handy, reliable tool for searching for files or information. This tutorial illustrates 10 ways to take advantage of its power and flexibility. From the tutorial: Windows search ...

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 ...

As a relatively isolated junior sysadmin, I remember seeing answers on Experts Exchange and later Stack Exchange that baffled me. Authors and commenters might chain 10 commands together with pipes and ...

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 ...