The everlastingly useful grep command can change its character with the flip of a switch to help you find things.

After jumping into the Ubuntu command line yesterday, today I decided to dive a little deeper and explore the 'man' and 'grep' commands more closely.

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.

With regex and grep, you can search for patterns in text files with either simple or very complex patterns. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn ...

As a freelance web dev, most of my time spent on a Linux command line was setting up the servers (so, hopefully-do-once-and-forget-about-it stuff) and then running the most basic of commands.

I gotta say, tldr beats the hell out of man pages for like 99% of the times I want to look at a man page in the first place. Click to expand... I just found a gotcha installing tldr on Ubuntu: Even ...