The grep command can search for and list Linux files based on strings you are looking for and add the context of surrounding text. The grep command can help you find Linux files containing the string ...

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 ...

Sometimes looking for information on a Unix system is like looking for needles in haystacks. Even important messages can be difficult to notice when they’re buried in huge piles of text. And so many ...

Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But these are commands I rely on every day, and you can benefit from them, too.

Ooooh, great article to wake up to. I find the following alias commands, which I set system wide in /etc/profile.d/custom.sh, on my primary file server and anything ...

A project I'm involved with has made me think about how there are always many solution paths for any given problem in the Linux universe. For this other project, I wanted to cobble together a version ...

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 ...