The grep command can help you find Linux files containing the string you are looking for and even show you the text surrounding that string if you know a few tricks.. The first of these tricks ...

Using the "grep" Command. The grep command is a built-in Linux command that allows you to search for lines that match a given pattern. By default, it returns all lines in a file that contain a ...

The grep command makes it easy to find strings in text files on Linux systems, but that’s just a start. It can be used to search through these files for multiple strings or regular expressions ...

5. grep The grep command is unique in that it allows you to search for a string in a file and view only the portions of the file that contain the string in question. For example, I have zdnet.txt ...

If you stick to the concepts that I cover later, they will work across most flavors and Linux utilities. You don't need to think too hard about it. PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) is the ...

The grep command is useful for searching for strings and patterns through files and whole directories. To do a simple search, ...

30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 19. 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’.

The essential command for searching for strings on the Linux command line is 'grep'. However, the weakness of grep is that it cannot search for character strings in video files and PDF files ...

The setup: I have a directory. In this directory is a series of subdirectories. In each subdirectory are four or five text files. The files are all named identically from directory to directory; i ...

Thanks to jan61 for the elegant Linux command covered in this post that makes it easy to search contents of files in JARs for a given string. Original posting available at https://marxsoftware ...