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 ...

Love the speed of grep but hate the terminal syntax? Discover the Rust-based GUI tool that makes complex file searches as easy as point-and-click.

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 ...

Shell scripts tend to fork a lot of processes to do things (although, IIRC, busybox is a mostly sh-compatible replacement that makes a whole lot of common unix commands be high performance built-ins ...

No installs required: history search, redirection, job control, completions, and other built-in terminal features that exploit the power of Linux.

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 ...

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 ...