Use Grep like a Boss

Andrew Courter
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readSep 10, 2023

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Ever needed to search through some files or file names on your machine? Grep is a great way across Linux based systems to quickly find exactly what you are looking for.

Search for a string in a file

The simplest way to use grep is to search for some specific text in a single file.

grep <text> <filename>

grep 'match' file1

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