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 Linux fold command can break long lines of text into pieces, but it can also be used to create arguments for looping in scripts. The Linux fold command enables you to break a string of characters ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

All scripts start with a shebang ( #!/bin/bash ). You can make notes in your scripts by putting a # in front of an ...

Linux might sound scary for first-time Linux users, but actually, it isn’t. Linux is a bunch of open-source Unix operating systems based on Linux Kernel. These operating systems are called Linux ...

I recently thought about writing a Groovy script to search JARs for a specific string, but decided to first look for an alternative rather than writing a script. The alternative needed to be easy to ...

Older commands can still be faster—and more flexible, powerful, and accessible too!