The grep command offers interesting options to help you find what you want from text files. The grep command makes it easy to find strings in text files on Linux systems, but that’s just a start.

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.

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

These commands wield significant power, and seem to be two of the most commonly used commands for the Ubuntu Linux command line. I mentioned ‘grep’ in passing yesterday.

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.

Grep and diff are command line-based text analysis tools available in all Linux and Unix distributions. Both are designed to parse documents on a line-by-line basis.