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'ipkg search xxx' always returns no answer
On a Synology NAS (uses a 'home grown' *nix variant (possibly based on Debian?)) I have installed ipkg package manager. When I try a command like
ipkg search shred
or
ipkg search *shred*
it ...
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Search for period in Bash reverse search [on hold]
Bash reverse search Ctrl-R is great, but I have a trouble finding . with it. I tried escaping it with bashslash \, but that does not do the trick. It just exits out of the search and places . next to ...
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How to search and replace strings matching a replacement list for multiple files
I have a file, say map.txt, containing a list of search strings and corresponding replacements:
search -> replacement
bigBone -> bb
fishMarket -> fm
dogCollar -> dc
...
I need to ...
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Can I force `man` to do lower case sensitive matching?
When I search man pages, the search is case sensitive, but only with regard to upper case letters. E.g., x will match x and X whereas X only matches x. This is the man-db version of man, used on ...
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Highlight patterns in command output (grep-like but without excluding lines) [duplicate]
I need a command that colorizes some symbol sequence in output of a certain command. I'd like it like grep make it.
$ some-command | grep symbol-sequence
However grep removed lines that isn't ...
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Find font file from font name on Linux
I have a font with the name Media Gothic. How can I find the file name of that font in Linux? I need to copy that file to another system. I've tried:
find /usr/share/fonts/ -name '*media*'
But this ...
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How to copy access.log lines by time?
I have a huge webserver access.log in CentOS. I access it over remote VPN so I cant copy the file or read it directly.
I know the specific time in the logs I want to copy, but it is too far back too ...
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Can we make grep faster by indexing words in files? [duplicate]
Over a decade ago I imagined an improved version of grep that would use indexes to make recursive searching faster. I never got around to writing it, but I wonder if somebody else did!
My original ...
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Compare two text files and find matching lines
I have two files A and B. A looks like this (4 to 6 lines):
GAGA
CAGA
GGGT
TATT
file B is a really big file with thousands of lines, here is a short example:
AAATGTCAAGAGACAGAAATGTCAAGAGGGT
...
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Search for files by content only in trunk subdirectories
I think its a simple question, but the answer is probably a little more complicated :P
Edit: Actually, its not complicated at all!^^
So I have a directory with multiple svn projects and I would like ...
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Lynx incremental search
I am trying to run an incremental search using lynx.
Imagine a page, for example, an index_of page which contains several folders which also contain other subfolders and files. I want to run lynx in ...
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What does the search flag 'z' do in VIM?
I was looking for a way to show a bit of context around my searches when doing
g/mysearchtext/p
When I stumbled across this page Search-a-pattern-and-provide-a-context-few-lines-above-and-below ...
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Is there a command reverse search in vim?
In linux cli I can do ctrl-r and do a reverse search and choose something I have done easily.
Is there something similar in vim? I mean I may run a command using : (could be anything like a long ...
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Unix command to check if any two lines in a file are same?
Is there a unix command that can check if any two lines in a file are the same?
For e.g. Consider a file sentences.txt
This is sentence X
This is sentence Y
This is sentence Z
This is sentence X
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How to search for Debian packages by tags?
At Debian's Packages page, one can search amongst the software available on Debian. In the package descriptions, they are categorized by tags, described here. For instance, the package [xterm][3] has ...
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How can I “grep” patterns across multiple lines?
It seems I am misusing grep/egrep.
I was trying to search for strings in multiple line and could not find a match while I know that what I'm looking for should match. Originally I thought that my ...
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Searching for packages using apt-get
I'd like to search for repository packages using package name or package description.
For example
Search for Zend
Search for Ze*d
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Mailing out a customised content based on specific search in a logfile
Using below test.sh, I am getting result in dump.txt as below:
test.sh:
#!/bin/bash
#"Maxl-script" zone starts.....
essmsh -l admin password -s localhost -i << EOF
spool on to 'dump.txt';
...
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How to search for available software in repositories though CLI?
I want to be able to search all available software like one would using "Synaptic Package manager" or "Ubuntu Software Center" through Command Line.`
I want a better way than pressing Tab after ...
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Search Alt+F2 history
I wonder if there's some way to search the Alt+F2 "runner" history most preferably within the dialog itself. I know that in Cinnamon the values are available in dconf-editor under org.cinnamon ...
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How to search in specific files matching a pattern
How can I find a word in specific files matching a pattern. e.g. searching for version in CMake* files recursively found in the current directory.
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How to show only installed packages by executing “aptitude search”?
After executing the aptitude search pattern command, I need to see only installed packages in the search result. Is there any way to do that?
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Why am I getting so many hits searching for “git” in the aptitude cache?
When I give the following command:
apt-cache search git | wc -l
I get the answer 756. How can I list just the half-dozen or so apps associated with git?
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Case insensitive search in man pages
Is there a way to search man pages case-insensitively? Using the '/' search feature matches exact case.
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How can I pass in a parameter to sed?
To be more precise - how can I pass in a parameter to a program that then calls sed - how can I 'pass' that parameter along?
I have a file 'source_code.sc'.
I have a sed script "find_expect":
#n
...
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Open man page and search for string in a single command
Instead of doing man chmod and then /a+x to jump to the first section in the chmod man page that mentions a+x, I would like to know if there is a way to open the man page to a specific search string, ...
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How can I search history with what is already entered at the prompt in zsh?
In zsh, I know that I can search history with Ctrl+r. However, oftentimes I start to type a command directly at the prompt, but then realize I should be searching history. When I hit Ctrl+r, it brings ...
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Command to highlight the occurrence of a method in a file? [closed]
How would I do the above? Would it be different for each text editor? Could it be done in the terminal? Thanks
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Binary search for a failing line
git has bisect run to figure out which revision an error was introduced.
I have a big file (100GB) and at least one of the lines is bad, but the program I have to check it with will not tell me which ...
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Search text in command output on a PuTTY terminal
I would like to know how to search particular text on the terminal. If I do cat of log files, I would like to find certain words like job or summary so that I don't have to read through the entire log ...
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Reading and searching long man pages
I finally got fed up when wanting to read about bash's read and it's -s option with man bash. I found the right spot eventually (around line 4500), but it was a frustrating as usual, since both /read ...
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How search for a file beginning with either a or z and ending with a or z?
I attempted find -name 'a*' 'z*' '*a' '*z'
but it gave me the error code find: paths must precede expression: z*
I know how to find files starting with a though z, or ending with a-z, but not ...
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grep entire filesystem blocks on devices
Command
grep -rHinF --colour=always -e "aa:aa:aa:aa" /
Output
grep: /dev/geom.ctl: Operation not supported by device
grep: /dev/devctl: Device busy
It seems that grep can not proceed because it ...
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find all commands with wh, find by part of keyword in man page
I want to find all man pages for commands that begin with wh. But I do not understand why the following keyword does not work.
man -f "wh"
Also if I put
man chmod
in man page of chmod, it ...
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Find files by the length of filename
I want to find all files by length of the file names.
For example if I want to find files of length 1, such as a.go, b.go
I put:
grep '.\{1\}' file
But this does not work. What command can I use ...
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Is there html documentation finder/searcher, like info utility for info files?
Many packages have their documentation in html. Is there some sort of man or info utility to find locally installed html documentation and work with it?
I mean, I need a program which would ...
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Search for mail content with mutt
Is it possible to use to search for specific mail content using built-in functionality of Mutt? Or, as last resort, how can I configure grep to be used in Mutt ?
The documentation only mentions the ...
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vim search numbers containing specific number of digits
I need to find specific length numbers in a big document. I tried to use regex for this. For example, If I need to search for numbers with exactly 2 digits, I use /d/d (i.e. /d twice followed by a ...
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Vim: searching upward/downward in file from specific point/position
I want to search a word from my current cursor position in vim to upward in file.
How to achieve this?
Also how to do same for downward in file.
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How to monitor directory/file changes to rebuild index?
Just moved to Ubuntu 12.04 from Windows 7.
Under Win 7 I use "Everything" to search files and directories, it can build the index database and update it once any file or directory changes. I'm very ...
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how to make search a text on the terminal directly
I have a program that outputs some data to the terminal (via printf() ). Is it possible search a text on the outputed text on the terminal directly?
It is possible to do search by directing the ...
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How to remove lines included in one file from another file in bash?
I have two lists, a complete list and a partial list. I want a bash script that will search the complete list for any lines that are in the partial, if there are, they will be removed from the ...
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Chromium omnibar not showing search suggestions?
I am using chromium browser on my ubuntu 12.04 and it doesn't show any search suggestions when I type search terms in omnibar.
I checked settings, everything fine there with checkbox ticked for ...
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Why does `!45` get replaced with `top`?
I was trying to a string search within Ubuntu 12.04 which went as follows:
find . -exec grep -l "!45" {} \;
Instead of searching for the string "!45", it was replaced with top. It didn't invoke the ...
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Count number of lines with a certain value in a column for all files in directory recursively
I have 40 files in a directory and I want to count the number of times there is a line with a "2" in the first column in each file individually.
I am trying something like this, but it prints out ...
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Is there a Unix command that searches for similar strings, based mostly on how they sound when spoken?
I have a file of names, and I want to search within it, not caring too much about whether I have spelled the name ( that I am searching for ) correctly. I know that grep has quite a bit of ...
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Help searching in files for regex patterns, recursively, with specialized output
My problem is that I need to:
Find all lines matching regex_pattern in all files (deep search) in a given root directory
For each line that matches, output:
File name
Line number containing the ...
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List all files in a directory recursively but exclude directories themselves
Simple question, I'm running the following find command:
find . -type d \( -path ./.git -o -path ./log -o -path ./public -o -path ./tmp \) -prune -o -print
To list all the files in my directory, ...
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Search by file dimension [duplicate]
I have many photos. How to search files by its dimensions? For example, i want to search images with exact dimensions 500 x 500 pixels. Is there any utility for this task?
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Search and replace full line in recursive files
I'm using:
grep -n -H -o -R -e textword .
List all file recursively under directory '.' with string 'textword' and show the file, line and only portion matching.
I need to remove lines that ...
