Linux Administration/Commands/Searches

This lesson covers text searches using regular expressions.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the text search portion of Linux+ certification include:

• Search text files using regular expressions
  • Create simple regular expressions containing several notational elements
  • Use regular expression tools to perform searches through a filesystem or file content
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • grep
    • egrep
    • fgrep
    • sed
    • regex(7)

Readings

1. Wikipedia: grep

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Search text files using regular expressions

References

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