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)  grep

Activities

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