
Unix, Linux and Macintosh users all enjoy the availability of a search tool that is lacking in Microsoft Windows. A wonderful command line utility called Grep is taken for granted by those users.
Grep has it’s origins in Unix and as I mentioned it is a command line utility that does a great job of searching for text strings in files. Basically you type the word grep followed by any text or text string you want to search for and grep returns a list of every file containing that string. Sample:
grep banana
This would return a list of every file containing the word banana.
Over the years many variations of this comman (continue reading…)








