Book description
"Grep Pocket Reference" is the first guide devoted to grep, the powerful utility program that helps you locate content in any file on a Unix or Linux system. Several applications use grep, from mail filtering and system log management to malware analysis and application development, and there are many other…
Why read it?
1 author picked grep Pocket Reference as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
grep is probably the most-used command line tool.
For a few years, I had a copy of this book on my desk, and would flick through it in spare moments, gradually absorbing all the minutiae of grep's options in the hope they would be useful to me one day.
You can get some idea of the book's utility from the fact that I had to regularly buy a new copy because someone would 'borrow' it and not give it back.
From Ian's list on becoming a Linux command line ninja.
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