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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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Grep: search and replace full line

The command grep "foo" myfile.txt prints all matching lines in my file. Now I want to replace the full line with another string. How can I do that?
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What is the python equivalent of grep -v?

I like grep -v. I use it all the time. But I am also doing some text processing in python, and there is one crucial thing that I lack. Usually, I use grep -v to take extraneous stuff out of text. ...
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grep equivalent of the kwrite regex [A-Z][A-Z]+

So, it took me ages, but I finally learned to think in terms of regular expressions, thanks to using them in kwrite. But I still don't know how to translate that knowledge to grep. I love my grep, ...
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How to detect and delete lines containing ˆ@

I have a simple problem: In my file, the are lines containing the string ˆ@ˆ@ˆ@ˆ@ˆ@ˆ@. I just want to delete all lines with this string, using for example the sed or grep commands. And I would like ...
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How to search and replace text in all php-files in a directory and it's subdirectories

I am looking for a shell script that recursively traverses all .php files in a directory and performs a search & replace of a particular text pattern. The search pattern is quite long ( > 5000 ...
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evaluate multiple patterns from program output and write into pattern specific files

I have a script outputting some value/numbers and I want to split those into two files. I am looking at something like: ./runme.sh | grep 'ook' >> ook.out | grep 'eek' >> eek.out Where ...
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Returning only the portion of a line after a matching pattern

I have a file (file_name) which contains exactly one occurance of the string Result:, at the start of a line. I want to print all the characters after the string Result: in that line until I encounter ...
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Find a string (like grep -q) within only a section of a file

I want to write some Bash that can verify that a string exists in a configuration file. I can't change the file format, it belongs to a different application. The file is subdivided into groups named ...
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How can I redirect matching lines to a file, and non-matching lines to a different file?

Is there a script/program/utility already available for the following requirement in a optimised way? someCommand | tee >(grep "pattern" > LinesWhichMatch) | grep -v "pattern" > ...
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How do I grep without leading whitespaces?

I'm greping through a large codebase, and leading whitespaces and tabulation seem to be quite annoying. Is there any way to get rid of it? grep -R "something" ./ E.g, instead of: foo/bar.cpp: ...
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grep surrounding characters of a match

I'm looking to do a find and replace within a giant database dump, and it's not doing what I think should happen. I'd like to grep for my target string in the file, and then see the surrounding 8 ...
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Deleting Lines Containing a Specified String in Different Files

Suppose there are two files in web/ named foo.php and bar.php. The 1st line of foo.php is "sdajgeSTRINGdsad" and the 10th line of bar.php is "gdfhu98324STRING". The task is to first locate these two ...
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Is there a way to get the effect of combining grep -v with grep -A?

Is there a way, either with grep or something else, to (in effect) combine grep -v and grep -A? That is, rather than include everything for x lines after a string, exclude everything. Quick reminder ...
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How do I recursively grep through compressed archives?

I'm trying to find out what modules use Test::Version in cpan. So I've used minicpan to mirror it. My problem is that I need to iterate through the archives that are downloaded, and grep the files ...
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Can grep output only specified groupings that match?

Say I have a file: # file: 'test.txt' foobar bash 1 bash foobar happy foobar I only want to know what words appear after "foobar", so I can use this regex: "foobar \(\w\+\)" The parenthesis ...
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Search for a text in Linux but don't display the complete line in results

I'm using grep to do this, like: grep someText file.log But this returns the complete line in results. If someText is found in the middle of a line I don't want to ouput the whole line, just the ...
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Is there any alternative to grep's -A -B -C switches (to print few lines before and after )?

grep -A 2 -B 3 prints 2 lines after the grep string and prints 3 lines before. grep -C 3 prints 3 Lines before and 3 lines after Unfortunately, the grep I'm using does not support these ...
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Is there a way to modify a file in-place?

I have a fairly large file (35Gb), and I would like to filter this file in situ (i.e. I don't have enough disk space for another file), specifically I want to grep and ignore some patterns — is there ...
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Switch from grep to sed

I have a files students.txt, with lines of the form: Surname, Forename: Day.Month.Year: Degree For example: Smith, John: 15.01.1986: MSc IT Taylor, Susan: 04.05.1987: MSc IT Thomas, Steve: ...
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The cursor to a match, edit, the cursor to the next match, edit — like in a directory?

Algorithmic blackout: problem: find the files that match problem: stack/buffer the matches move the cursor to the next file of the stack and thereby to the location of the match repeat step 2 ...
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How intelligent are unix utilities?

Unix utilities like sort, find, grep, diff et al are very handy to perform quick tasks, sometimes without writing any code at all. I wanted to know what algorithms do they internally use and how do ...
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Extracting tokens from a line of text

Using bash scripting and grep/awk/sed, how can I split a line matching a known pattern with a single character delimiter into an array, e.g. convert token1;token2;token3;token4 into a[0] = token1 … ...
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How to remove multiple lines per occurrence in a file?

Say I have this 857835 line file, containing stuff like this: a1 rubbish1 rubbish2 rubbish3 rubbish4 a1 rubbish5 rubbish6 rubbish7 rubbish8 And I wish to remove all occurences of a1 and the next ...
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How do I check if a file already has line with “contents” in it?

I need to know if a file aready has line with contents X in it, if not append line. here's the code I've tried. if ! $(grep 'eval $(perl -I$HOME/foo/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib=$HOME/foo)' ~/.bashrc) then ...
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How can I grep through files whose name begins with `-`?

I've tried this. grep -r thanks * slave-iv grep: invalid option -- '@' Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... Try `grep --help' for more information. Here's ...
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How do I take a list and remove it from a file?

I have a long list of domain names that I need to remove from /etc/remotedomains. They're probably not in any particular order in the file. Each domain is on one line. How could I iterate through the ...