Linux

Written by Daniel Mundy | 16 April 2009

Useful Commands

Find Files Containing Text
grep -lir "some text" *

To find text within files these results
grep -lir "more text" `grep -lir "some text" *`

Back up files with permissions
tar -cvpzf file.tar.gz *

To look inside of that archive
tar -ztvf file.tar.gz

To extract it
tar -xzvf file.tar.gz