The grep utility searches a pattern (regular expression) in a text file. There are many options to control how matches are performed and how to display matches. External references grep specification (Single UNIX v3) GNU grep manual Tutorials grep tutorial regular-expression.info Further ...
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How to find the total number of occurrences of text and files with find command
I am trying to run the find command to find the total number of occurrences of a particular text string and also the number of files which has this text string.
What I have right now is this command.
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Is there a global grep.conf in Unix/Linux?
I would like to make a utility that always enables the --color argument for the grep command in any distribution. Is there a way to do this or do I have to search for a way for each distribution?
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Recursive grep for words in a particular file type
I wanted a command line command to search all shell scripts in the filesystem for a particular word, so I asked around at work and got the following solutions:
grep word `find / -name \*.sh ...
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How do I grep for multiple patterns?
I want to find all lines in several files that match one of two patterns. I tried to find the patterns I'm looking for by typing
grep (foo|bar) *.txt
but the shell interprets the | as a pipe and ...
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Is it a good idea to supplement shell script with perl purely for use of regex?
I'm looking for a simple way to utilize regex in a UNIX shell script where not every system will have perl extensions built into grep. What is really helpful about perl regex here is back/forward ...
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To display the selected part in line of text file
I have the following in a text file:
0400903071220312 20120322 20:21
1TRANTELSTRAFLEXCAB22032012CMP201323930000812201108875802100A003485363 12122011AUS 182644 ...
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How to grep for a single quote?
I am grepping through some VB source files. I use the following query -
grep -nr "GlobalCommArea\s*=\s*.*\.Transaction" .
Some of the lines, however, are commented and begin with a single ...
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Removing a long string from php files - using grep and sed?
I have encountered some malware on my Linux server, and am trying to remove it from many php files.
I've tried endlessly with grep | sed and grep | tr and couldn't even erase a simple text string, ...
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How can I pass strings with single quotes to grep?
My desired outcome is the following: to recursively search a directory looking for a given string in all found files. The following command is my usual port of call:
find ./ | xargs grep -ns 'foobar'
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Recursively search folder but exclude svn subfolder
I want to find all occurences of foo in a large file system maintained by SVN but I don't want to match anything contained in any .svn directory.
I get immediate matches when I do grep -l -e 'foo' * ...
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Longest common substring using grep
I have a huge text file called dictionary.txt with entries like
ABC_SEQ_NUM This represents....
ABC_RANK This represents....
ABC_BSC_ID This represents...
PQR_TA_DATE_AF This ...
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How to perform GREP on FTP?
I tried searching for similar command in ncftp (actually this is the only terminal ftp client I used) and I didn't find it.
What's the way (if possible at all) to use grep command on remote server, ...
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How to combine two grep statements and display their results together?
Suppose I do
grep "MyVariable = False" FormA.frm
... result1
grep "MyVariable = True" FormA.frm
... result2
How to write the grep command so that I can say something like
grep ...
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How to search all subdirectories and their subdirectories for the occurence of a word using grep? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Searching for string in files
Suppose I have a directory called Home and it is my current directory.
And in this home directory I have many other directories
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Print word that doesn't contain character
My file is in the following format:
this!,is!,another!,test,yes!
this!,is!,another!,column,yes!
no,not!,another!,column
My output should be:
test
column
no
It shouldn't contain the '!' ...
