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 ...

Certain Linux commands are no longer maintained for a number of reasons - including security vulnerabilities. Here's the list.

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 ...

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 ...

Have a quick question that I think the powers of Ars can solve. I have an existing linux log parsing script that is working fine but I want to add new functionality to it. Given the following 2 log ...