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 them. By ...

The setup: I have a directory. In this directory is a series of subdirectories. In each subdirectory are four or five text files. The files are all named identically from directory to directory; i.e.

The essential command for searching for strings on the Linux command line is 'grep'. However, the weakness of grep is that it cannot search for character strings in video files and PDF files. ' ...

The grep command is a handy, reliable tool for searching for files or information. This tutorial illustrates 10 ways to take advantage of its power and flexibility. From the tutorial: Windows search ...