The everlastingly useful grep command can change its character with the flip of a switch to help you find things. The grep command – likely one of the first ten commands that every Unix user comes to ...

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grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. Created in the early days of Unix, it has become a cornerstone of text processing in Linux ...

With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix command line utilities to handle more ...

In the example below, we can see how grep selects from a list of bugs all those that start with “bee” and then all those for which the third letter is an “a”. This is pretty basic when it comes to ...

Wow. It’s amazing we ever made it out of the 20th century. It’s like reading about farmers who would plow by hand. I remember the epiphany (long time ago) of discovering how awk solved my problem of ...