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.

I should hope not. "Unix experience" implies you know how to get stuff done using tools common to most Unix-likes, like sed, grep and awk covered in this article.

Linux provides powerful command-line tools, such as grep and find, to assist you in searching and finding files based on specific text strings. These tools enable you to quickly locate files by their ...

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

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 ...

Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But there are a handful of commands I depend on every day. Here's what they can do for you.

Combining cat with Other Commands The cat command's versatility shines when combined with other commands through pipes. By piping the output of cat into another command, you can perform complex ...

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.