From the course: CompTIA A+ (220-902) Cert Prep: 4 Virtualization Printers and Troubleshooting

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Miscellaneous Linux commands

Miscellaneous Linux commands

- The CompTIA A+ covers a whole bunch of Linux commands and we've covered them all in a number of different episodes, but like any job, there's a few leftover. So I'm going to call this miscellaneous Linux commands, which is a better way of saying the last few commands that don't really have a home. So, we're going to go through a number of commands that are unrelated, but they are very cool and they're on the A+. So let's get started with one of the coolest, the famous Grep command. In the world of Linux, you are constantly dealing with text files in one way or another. Most of the configuration of a Linux system is actually done through configuration files. Now if you have some experience with more modern Linux's a lot of those graphical front ends that are being used are actually doing nothing more than editing text files for you. Equally, within the world of Linux, log files are king. You get log files for all kinds of stuff. They are generally almost always text files and you…

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