After jumping into the Ubuntu command line yesterday, today I decided to dive a little deeper and explore the 'man' and 'grep' commands more closely.

The everlastingly useful grep command can change its character with the flip of a switch to help you find things.

The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful -- especially in scripts.

With regex and grep, you can search for patterns in text files with either simple or very complex patterns. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn ...

Combining cat with Other Commands The cat command's versatility shines when combined with other commands through pipes. By piping the output of cat into another command, you can perform complex ...

As a freelance web dev, most of my time spent on a Linux command line was setting up the servers (so, hopefully-do-once-and-forget-about-it stuff) and then running the most basic of commands.

One reason a lot of people get started with the Linux terminal is to use ImageMagick and FFmpeg. These are popular tools for converting image and video files. One reason you might want to do this is ...

I gotta say, tldr beats the hell out of man pages for like 99% of the times I want to look at a man page in the first place. Click to expand... I just found a gotcha installing tldr on Ubuntu: Even ...