Introduction You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within ...

There are numerous ways to compare text files on a Linux system from the command line. This post describes seven commands that can help you do this and explains how to interpret the results. So ...

Thanks to jan61 for the elegant Linux command covered in this post that makes it easy to search contents of files in JARs for a given string. Original posting available at https://marxsoftware ...

Windows search is not without certain charms, but when I need to find files or their contents, or search for specific system information, the grep command in Linux never ceases to amaze me through ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to use the search feature to more efficiently locate the configuration option you need to edit in the nano text editor.