https://www.daveswiki.org/ 2026-04-19T02:13:47-0700 https://www.daveswiki.org/ https://www.daveswiki.org/lib/tpl/adoradark/images/favicon.ico text/html 2018-03-31T22:29:27-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.daveswiki.org/doku.php?id=linux:commands:grep&rev=1522560567&do=diff grep searches files for text. Basic Syntax grep [options] <text> <file pattern> Flags Flag Description -r Recursively searches files specified in the directory as the <file pattern> argument -R Like -r but follows symbolic links -i Ignore case text/html 2019-01-11T16:17:47-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.daveswiki.org/doku.php?id=linux:commands:rsync&rev=1547252267&do=diff rsync Is a utility for synchronizing two sets of files. It has many uses but one thing its good for is recursively copying files from one location to another, including dotfiles. (This seems hard to do with cp.) From: rsync -av <src> <dest> text/html 2019-01-01T15:16:43-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.daveswiki.org/doku.php?id=linux:commands:sed&rev=1546384603&do=diff sed is a text processing thingy that is very sophisticated. Here is a useful stackexchange thread that shows how to use sed to perform a “search an replace” across groups of files. text/html 2018-08-15T17:44:24-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.daveswiki.org/doku.php?id=linux:commands:unzip&rev=1534380264&do=diff Unzip Extracts the contents of a gzip compressed archive. View the contents of a zip file without unzipping it unzip -vl <gzip compressed archive>