marsh prairie
So I'm learning cmds from Linux basics for hackers. The file given is /etc/snort/snort.lua the answer is underneath the question but I wanted to know how you'd find stuff easily and I'd like to hear your explanation on finding a word or something within a file. When I read the answer I didn't understand much
Actually you won't be able to find the exact text within the file as the file has been updated but um just want to know how you'd do it
Confusion 🥲
worn glade
if it's a text file out of many, u could probably cd to its folder, and do ls | grep "dog"
if u were looking for a file that had mention of dog
or cat suspectfile.txt | grep "dog"
(cat means concatenate, but it usually used to just show/type text files to the screen)
or just to filter file results, u can filter file names... ls dog*
if there were 100 file starting with dog among 1000 files in the folder
or ls *dog* for any file having dog somewhere in the name with that lettercase
see grep --help for more info, i may have not got it right
marsh prairie
see grep --help for more info, i may have not got it right
Wait this is within the folder right like if a folder had 1000 text files and maybe 47 of them are "dog" you can list them up but my question is within a file if there are n number of lines and I need to find "dog" but only using head, tail, grep and cat. Like need to know the line number too
But appreciate the help