How to find files in Linux with grep: 10 examples (free PDF) The grep command is a handy, reliable tool for searching for files or information.

Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, awk, and grep "Do people really write these long, convoluted commands?" In a word: yes.

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.

Linux provides many commands to help you manipulate text. The awk, cut, grep, expr, sed and xargs commands along with bash parameter expansion provide you with many useful options.

After a while you start both putting commands into scripts and typing one-off multi-line small programs just on the command line.