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grep is a command-line utility for searching plaintext datasets for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the ed command g/re/p (global regular expression search and print), which has the same effect.
The man page for the sed utility, as seen in various Linux distributions. A man page (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include programs, system libraries, system calls, and sometimes local system details. The local host administrators can create and install ...
xargs (short for "extended arguments") [1] is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input.It converts input from standard input into arguments to a command.
In computing, apropos is a command to search the man page files in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Apropos takes its name from the French "à propos" (Latin "ad prÅpositum") which means about. It is particularly useful when searching for commands without knowing their exact names.
lsof is a command meaning "list open files", which is used in many Unix-like systems to report a list of all open files and the processes that opened them. This open source utility was developed and supported by Victor A. Abell, the retired Associate Director of the Purdue University Computing Center.
'grep -r foo .' seems more appropriate than 'grep -r foo *'. The former is literally recursively searching the current directory, while the latter is only searching the non-hidden files and directories in the current directory, and their (hidden or non-hidden) subdirectories/files.
ngrep (network grep) is a network packet analyzer written by Jordan Ritter.It has a command-line interface, and relies upon the pcap library and the GNU regex library.. ngrep supports Berkeley Packet Filter logic to select network sources or destinations or protocols, and also allows matching patterns or regular expressions in the data payload of packets using GNU grep syntax, showing packet ...
Output of dmesg viewed with grep. The output of dmesg can amount to many complete screens. For this reason, this output is normally reviewed using standard text-manipulation tools such as more, tail, less or grep. [6] Size of the dmesg buffer is limited and the output is often captured in a permanent system logfile via a logging daemon, such as ...