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cut / grep and df -h

How can I grep or cut the "173G" under "Verf"? I need this for Unix scripting in school. jonas@jonaspc:~/$ df -h /dev/sda2 Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf /dev/sda2 ...
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Parse apache logs to exclude IP ranges

I need to look for some requests in a huge pile of apache logs. My only requirement is this: I need to only view the requests coming from any IP address that is NOT included in a list of 50 IP ranges ...
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Peculiar piping grep/head behavior

I'm helping the netadmin here with a perl regex to automate operating on some snapshots from our SAN and our scripts does stuff like this: varinit1=$(iscsiadm -m session | grep rbmsdata1 | head -n1 | ...
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How to use a value returned by a script in grep filter?

I'm on FreeBSD's csh. I want to form a row with domains of one user and then use this row to filter exim maillog to get only mail from/to this user's domains. I wrote a script to form a row from a ...
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grep searchstring /etc/crontab strange behavior in BASH script

I am working on a BASH script which creates automated backups via the crontab. I am trying to use myVARIABLE=`grep backup /etc/crontab` to return lines containing "backup" if an entry has already ...
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How do I execute a command on a given string in each line of a file?

Let's assume that I already have a file created. This file creation comes from the execution of a command. The contents of the file will be up to 4 different lines looking something like this: LUN ...
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grep — removing text after delimiter token

I have a file in which I need to eliminate everything after the first ; on every line. So a file like this: sdfsdsdf; fsdfsddf;sdfsd; Will result in this: sdfsdsdf fsdfsddf I have looked into ...