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. ' ...

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. Created in the early days of Unix, it has become a cornerstone of text processing in Linux ...

I'm trying to extract a bunch of img urls from a whole bunch of files. Grep ought to be my friend, but the bash implementation is not allowing me to cut the match at the first instance of my end point ...

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've set up my .bash_profile to colour code the hostname in the command prompt differently depending on which machine I'm on. I have a separate file for specifying the host colours, which is sourced ...