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 ...

Want to know the tricks of replacing a variable in a file using the SED command? This article will give you an overview of replacing a variable value in a file using SED. Before replacing a variable ...

Using bash aliases in Linux can save time and having to remember complex commands - and it can be fun, too. Want to get work done a little faster, spend less time remembering commands and maybe even ...

A series of commands ranging from simple to fairly complex will help you count lines, words or individual characters on the Linux command line. Linux includes some useful commands for counting when it ...

Even if you're already familiar with the printf command, if you got your information via "man printf" you may be missing a couple of useful features that are provided by bash's built-in version of the ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to locate files on the Linux directory hierarchy using the find command. Where did you leave that one particular configuration file you were just working on? You could start ...