0 comments / July 26, 2016

How to delete multiple files containing certain string/extension linux

As we seen in our previous articles we can use grep command in combination with two other commands to delete multiple files which has certain string in the file name or same extension in linux.


0 comments / July 21, 2016

Find total size of files in a directory using grep - Linux


1 comments / July 20, 2016

Grep files and copy / move selected files to another place recursively

Grep command allows us to filter the content from the input which matches the pattern. Here we are going to use combination of three commands including grep, to copy / move the files recursively to another directory which matches our pattern


0 comments / August 29, 2015

How to search text in files by type - linux

"grep" command in linux can be used to search text in files. We can further tune this command to search text in certain file types only. Let see how to do it.