Fortunately, Linux makes working with hidden files very easy, whether in a GUI file manager or the command line. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Let me show you how.

Linux text files, by comparison, end with just linefeeds. Here’s a sample of od output with the lines containing the CRLF characters in both octal and character form highlighted.

There are numerous ways to compare text files on a Linux system from the command line. This post describes seven commands that can help you do this and explains how to interpret the results.

grep -rni "text string" /path/to/directory -r performs a recursive search within subdirectories.-n displays the line number containing the pattern.-i ignores the case of the text string. The above ...