Grep Fu Basics
If you have used Linux before, you have most probably heard about Grep, Awk and Sed. These are super useful wordsmithing tools available on all Unix and Unix-like systems. Learning all that each can do is an insurmountable task and I’m sure you’d stand with me on that. But having less than functional usage knowledge in at least one can waste you a lot of time while you work with text in the terminal. Which is very often. In this article we’ll look at one of the tools: Grep.