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: Windows search ...

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 ...

I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required for ...

Have a grep question. I know I can grep a text file with -c and get how many times a particular string of text exists. But how can you take an existing text file like this: ...

Many Unix heads now working in Windows environments long for the easy find-and-replace of a Unix GREP (G/RE/P, or Get, Replace, Print) utility. Enter Windows Grep 2.2 ($30). With this versatile ...

The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...

Many Unix heads now working in Windows environments long for the easy find-and-replace of a Unix GREP (G/RE/P, or Get, Replace, Print) utility. Enter Windows Grep 2.2 ($30). With this versatile ...