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 ...

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 ...

One of the first grep habits I developed was to stop assuming I knew how something was capitalized. Rather than guess, I just let grep handle it for me. That’s where -i comes in. It tells grep to ...

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 ...

One of the best things about Linux is that it offers several ways of handling every task. Everything you do in Linux will have an alternative method, from the simplest to the most complex. But don't ...