Author: Adrienne Braganza Tacke

Don't Be Afraid Of Grep

February 13, 2019 Adrienne Braganza Tacke

One of the most powerful commands that you could learn, grep is essentially a robust search tool. It gets its name from the acronym it stands for which is global regular expression print. This is just a fancy way of saying “to search for specific strings or patterns (using regular expressions) within a specific file or directory and print the matching results”.