Linux Fledglings

grep is one of the most widely and frequently used command by linux administrators for their day to day work. Be it finding a specific line among thousands of lines in a code orsearching a log file for errors and warnings, we depend on grep. Following are some examples on typical usages of grep command.

Consider you have a file called dictionary.txt with a huge collection of words and you only want to view line containing the word "tux". To check each word line by line is a tedious task, instead we use the grep command.