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: ...

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 grep command offers interesting options to help you find what you want from text files. The grep command makes it easy to find strings in text files on Linux systems, but that’s just a start.

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 ...

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’.

Grep is fast, powerful, and the workhouse of the command line. We’ll show you how to become a command-line wizard by using grep to quickly find text hidden in your 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 ...

In this how-to, we’ll look at various ways of using the find command to help us find files and directories across the Linux filesystem. Sometimes we misplace a file or directory and we can spend ...