grep Chelo

This is the first of a series of blog post that will become an epic adventure to anyone who reads it, going from the mundane pleasantries found on the web to the awesomest comments on programming, software design, books, TV, movies and basically anything that comes to mind.

In case you’re not familiar with the grep command (you may have noticed, that’s the name of this Blog!), it’s a Unix command line utility used to search for all instances of a regular expression in a set of files.

If I lost you at Unix, here’s the simple explanation: grep is a program that searches through a bunch of files for a word or a sentence. It’s extremely useful for software developers, but I think everyone could make good use of it. Here are a couple suggested uses:

• Grep through your chat logs to find how often your girlfriend call you an idiot.
• Create a text-based drinking game where you analyze a set of news transcripts and drink every time you find “federal bailout”.
• Stalker bonus tip: grep -i  myspace my_web_history.txt You’ll never misplace one of your precious URLs ever again.

That’s enough for now, time to go back to the real world. BTW, I’m left-handed, so probably I’m left-footed as well, so starting off on the left foot must be a good thing