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 ...

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 ...

If you need to find and replace the occurrence of a word, phrase, URL, or whatever, and it's in several documents, this can be a really tedious task. If you're running Mac OS X, Linux, or really ...

Linux text files, by comparison, end with just linefeeds. Here’s a sample of od output with the lines containing the CRLF characters in both octal and character form highlighted.

$ tail -5 myfile text to be added to file more text more text to be added and so on and so on. You can also just type each line separately as long as you don’t end the quote until the end of the ...

Nano is my text editor of choice on both the Linux and macOS platforms. How many times have you read my words saying, “open so-and-so configuration file in the nano editor, locate entry X and ...

find is a powerful command that allows you to search for files and directories. You can use it to count files as well. Counting Files with ‘find’ To count all the files in the current directory and ...