February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
383 pages
11h 49m
English
You can use the following tools to search and sort files.
egrep
Extended version of grep.
fgrep
Searches files for literal words.
find
Searches the system for filenames.
grep
Searches files for text patterns.
locate
Faster version of find; however, it depends on a
database that is periodically updated by the weekly
cron job in /etc/weekly. If
the database is out of date, find is more
accurate.
sort
Sorts a file (use -n for numeric sorting,
-u to eliminate duplicates).
strings
Searches binary files for text patterns.
uniq
Reports or filters duplicate lines in a file.
zgrep
Searches compressed files for text patterns.
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