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• grep text file Lines containing "text"guide ›
• grep -i text file Case-insensitiveguide ›
• grep -v text file Lines that do NOT contain itguide ›
• grep -rn text dir/ Recursive, with file names and line numbersguide ›
• grep -c text file Count matching lines instead of printing themguide ›
• grep -B2 -A5 text log 2 lines before and 5 after each matchguide ›
• grep -rl text . Only the names of files that matchguide ›
• find . -name "*.txt" Find by name (quote the pattern!)guide ›
• find . -type d -name build Find directories by nameguide ›
• find . -size +100M Files larger than 100 MBguide ›
• find . -mtime -1 Modified in the last 24 hoursguide ›
• find . -name "*.tmp" -delete Delete matches (run it once without -delete first)guide ›
• find . -name "*.sh" -exec chmod +x {} + Run a command on every matchguide ›