Learn how to search inside files in Linux using grep, find, and ripgrep. Useful to debug configs, search logs, and explore codebases fast.

The examples described in this post work on Ubuntu and related Linux systems. Other systems might use different log file and configuration file names, but the process itself should be very similar.

Featured text from the download: HOW DO YOU VIEW THOSE LOG FILES? There are two main methods of viewing Linux log files from the command line. The first is static and the second is in real-time.

Learn how to use the Logrotate program to administer, back up, and monitor log files on Linux.

If you really want to see what's happening beneath the hood of your Linux distribution, you need to use log files.

Linux Log Anomaly Detection & Alerting Tool This is a lightweight, configurable Python tool for real-time (and one-time) Linux system logs scanning. It detects suspicious activity through regular ...

But the git config command commonly used to initialize these fields typically employs a global switch, which gets users wondering about Git’s competing local and system scopes. That then leads to the ...

This main configuration file then includes other configuration files from the different subdirectories in the kernel directory tree. Those configuration files also can include other configuration ...

Log rotation on Linux systems is more complicated than you might expect. Which log files are rotated, when and how often, whether or not the rotated log files are compressed, and how many ...