Commanding The Command Line

Question 1

Command to lookup, give information on and explain options for each command

Answer 1

man

Question 2

Locate files based on search parameters

Answer 2

find -type f -iname (name to search for)

find -type d -iname (name of directory to search for)

-iname (I indicates, not case sensitive in search)

Question 3

Command to search contents within a file

Answer 3

grep
grep 1st_item|2nd_item|3rd…
grep -i (case insensitive)
grep -il (l used to return the file name)

Question 4

Count the number of lines in a file or output

Answer 4

wc