Take, for instance, viewing the content of text files. For decades, I've used one method, even though I know there are other ways to do it. But my brain always defaults to what's already ingrained.

You can view a Text file in Command Prompt or PowerShell in Windows 11/10. You can view the entire content of TXT, a specific line, etc.

However, you can also copy content from a text or other text-based file directly from the right-click menu in Windows 10. For that, you just have to carry out a Registry hack.

Perhaps we've got a text file with a single sentence in it: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." In this text file, I'd like to replace the word "brown" with "white." To do that, I'll first ...

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 ...

For all these examples, assume that we have a file called ik.txt. Note that sed does not alter the original file by default. All changes will appear in the output, but the original file will remain ...

Sometimes it can be useful to list the contents of one or more directories in a text file, for example by creating a file catalog. Windows does not allow you to perform this operation from File ...