text files

Quick tip: Easily find strings with grep color highlighting feature

by on October 11, 2007 · 6 comments

grep command is the de facto tool for searching text files. However when there are too many matches, it can be difficult to find the requested text in the search results. grep comes with –color=’auto’ option. It surrounds the matching string with the colour, thus resulting enhanced output. Finding string with color highlighting Pass –color [...]

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zcommands: Read gzip compressed text files on fly

by on August 31, 2007 · 8 comments

Both Linux and Unix like oses comes with z commands. It allows you to read gzip compressed text files using zless, zcat and zmore etc. gzip reduces the size of the files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping the same ownership modes, access [...]

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