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awk: Find and Replace text

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The basic function of awk is to search files for lines (or other units of text) that contain a pattern. When a line matches, awk performs a specific action on that line.

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Find Files with the find Command

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A video howto for using the command line to find files with the "find" command.

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Unix and Linux Horror Stories And Actual Help

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Some funny stuff mixed with some practical advice. What a treat :)

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Using Find to Locate and Report on Large Files

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Backups are essential, and so is the reducing the time needed to perform those backups. Many’s the time I have sat waiting for a backup to complete only to remember that I had a link to a large set of files, or a bunch of ISO files in the ./download directory, and had to migrate those over to somewhere else and restart the backup.

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Command line tips - Finding files; Part 1: By Name

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There is always a time when working with the CLI that you will want to find a set of files by name, such as all JPEG images. The `find` command lets you do this and more. Let’s jump into the basic structure of a find command:

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