General :: Difference Between Grep And Find Command?
Dec 24, 2010
For searching a file or directory i normally use grep command. kindly can you guide me the difference between grep and find command. I have used both but that are the difference between them ? are the same or grep is new as comapird to find command.
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Sep 11, 2009
I am trying to do a find/grep/wc command to find matching files, print the filename and then the word count of a specific pattern per file. Here is my best (non-working) attempt so far:
wc `find . ( -name "*.as" -o -name "*.mxml" ) -exec grep -H HeightResizableList {}` ;
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Jan 5, 2011
When I used the find command, I almost always need to search the local drives. But, I almost always have super large network shares mounted and these are included in the search. Is there an easy way to exclude those in the find command, grep and other similar commands? Example:
find / -name .vimrc
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Nov 1, 2010
What is the difference between *.xml and *.xml in find command in Linux/macThe results of:find . -name *.xml and find . -name *.xml are different. But why?Also, is locate '*.xml' better than find? Which one is the most commonly used?
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Jun 14, 2011
How to find file with name="php.ini" on linux using grep command?
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Mar 20, 2010
Getting the list of files in the root directory that have changed less than 10 hours earlier, using grep, but without the directories.
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Feb 28, 2011
I have used diff command in past.I faced a situation to which I did not had a cluehere are some text strings (which can be stored in a file)Quote:
CONFIG_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y
CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128
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Oct 12, 2010
I am trying to find the number of lines in a directory containing .h and .cpp files.When I type
Code:
grep "
" * | wc -l
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Mar 23, 2011
I have a server hosting 100+ websites. I need to quickly identify which websites are configured with a database. There are way too many to manually check every website for a PHP file with a database name. So, I created a list of all databases from MySQL and put them in a text file. I then exported the text file to a shell variable and used it in a for loop.
bash variable
Code:
DBLIST=`cat dblist.txt`
Example of $DBLIST
Code:
db1 db_testing2 database_clientname production words4cheap
for loop
Code:
for db in $DBLIST; do find . -type "f" -iname "*.php" -exec grep -i $db '{}' ; -print; done
Note: my find statement starts searching at . which is the directory that contains all of my websites and their data, each website is setup in a sub directory, identified by it's domain name.
Example: I'm in /var/www. Beneath /var/www are a list of directories:
[URL]
However, this is taking too long (it's been running most of the day) and I was wondering if there wasn't an easier way to accomplish what I'm trying to achieve?
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Nov 2, 2010
I am looking for all the files that contain the text string 'moo.sql'. I ran the following:
find . -name '*.php' | grep -lir 'moo.sql' *
Unfortunately it seems to return non-php files in addition to php files. I thought the find portion of this would filter the file names so grep would only search php files.
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Dec 1, 2010
I'm trying to use grep to find the words in the dictionary that contain the letters "th" and the letter m.
I tried grep 'th m*.' Desktop/Dictionary/words(Thats where the destined dictionary word document is located)
grep 'th' Desktop/Dictionary/words works but only for the words with th. I have no idea of what expression to use to make it a unionized expression with m
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Dec 5, 2010
I want to find files containing the "$" char (ascii 0x24). 'Grep -irl $ *' would output the names of every file in path *, of course, because it means end of line (EOL). So giving grep the string "$" won't do. So I tried 'grep -irl $ *'. But this doesn't work either and I do not understand why. Am I not escaping the dollar sign? grep should interpret it literally. Neither 'grep -irl "$" *' will work. Fortunately, there's LQ, besides grep's man page.
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Apr 8, 2011
What does this command mean? grep 'GET / HTTP.*Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1' last10m |cut -d ' ' -f1 |sort -n |uniq -c|sort -n|tail
Whats the best way to figure out these commands in general? I have a lot of learning to do!
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Feb 12, 2010
I am new to linux as well as awk, grep or sed. I need a find and replace command single liner or script that loops trough input file (file1) and find the particular input in file2 and add "!" in front of the found string.
Example:
input file: file1
g+h=o+p
a+b=c+d
file2 (file that need to look for)
a+b=c+d1e105
x+y=z+s5e105
g+h=o+pabcdefg
t+r=w+qxvyderf
Output file (file3 should look like this)
!a+b=c+d1e105
x+y=z+s5e105
!g+h=o+pabcdefg
t+r=w+qxvyderf
I have tried many awk and sed method of find and replce but it did not work the way I wanted. This is mainly due to my lack of experience in awk and sed. The program should loop trough file1 and find in file2 and output in file3 for the 1st (g+h=o+p) set then repeat the same process again for set 2 (a+b=c+d).
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Oct 20, 2010
I am bussy with a litle bash script but i have now a problem.I have a file on the server with every time different text.Somewere in this text the is the following line:PHP Code:<BR><DIV CLASS='itemTotalsTitle'>2 Matching Service Entries Displayed</DIV> I want to make a bash script that replace this line when it says:"0 Matching Service Entries Displayed"To a other text like:"There a no knowing problem(s) on this moment."]If there is a other number than "0" than replace this line with:2 problems have been found on this moment, whe are bussy to fix this problem
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Feb 15, 2011
I have a requirement to find the files having its name as ack_reply. However, there are many other files in the same directory as these resides. Now I have to remove these files from the folder and retain others after 7 days. So I tried to write the below script with grep command.
find $directory -type f -mtime +7 | grep ack_reply
how can I pass this output to -exec command.
If I am not using grep command my script would be as
find $directory -type f -mtime +7 -exec remove.sh {}\;;
How can I use -exec with grep and find.
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Jul 28, 2010
I am using grep to filter out directories I am not interested in like this:svn stat | grep -v data/charts | grep -v lib/model | grep -v web/picsIt seems a bit "hacky". Is there a better way to specify more than one string to ignore, so that I dont have to chain multiple grep commands?
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May 11, 2011
cat filename| awk '{print $3}' | cut -c -3 | cut -c 2- | grep 66
this returns the lines containing "66" at 2nd 2 characters of 3rd column of a line, now i need complete lines for this, how can i do it?
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Mar 22, 2010
I have some big files of logs that contain errors printed by an app. They are most of the time relevant, however most of them are similar. So i figured i could check what happened between a time interval with a find.
Im using this one
Code:
And I get an output similar to this one.
Code:
Is there a way to condensate the output lines to get only one or two, indicating the start and last occurrence of a block? Or I need to create a program to do so?
Because right now I get thousands of similar lines, but when I'm scrolling through them i sometimes miss relevant information that i would've otherwise noted if it wasn't all that spammy.
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Sep 5, 2010
After typing "grep some_word" on terminal 6, the system doesn't do a thing, just lets me type endlessly. I've tried "Esc", "q" , [CTRL] + x, "exit" and no luck. I bet I'll kick my ass when you tell me but at the moment I can't figure it out. Rebooting would probably solve the problem but there must be a better way.
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Mar 19, 2010
Can someone please tell me how I can use grep to display all users running a particular command.
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Oct 31, 2010
This has to also show the line count. I can get it to show the files but not the line count. What is the single command used to identify only the matching count of all lines within files under the /etc directory that contain the word „HOST? List only the files with matches and suppress any error messages.
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Dec 13, 2010
I would like to know how to use grep command to filter the log files created between 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM in buch of log for whole day in different headings. This files resembles like sar file in linux.
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Feb 17, 2011
I was going to file a bug to findutils on gnu.org when I saw a notice that asked me whether I knew the difference between these two commands:find -name *.c and find -name "*.c".I use find command quite often but I don't think these two have any difference.
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Mar 18, 2010
I want to find the difference between two files in different servers , which have trust enabled to ssh without password.
Am using the following command , which shows no output. But i am able to see some difference there in the files manually.
Code:
serv1$diff .profile `ssh serv2 ls .profile`
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Dec 17, 2010
Write a script to list all the differences between two directories.
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Dec 6, 2010
I tried to tag late onto a question similar to mine on stackoverflow (Find Non-UTF8 Filenames on Linux File System) to elicit further replies, with no luck so far, so here goes again... I have the same problem as the OP in the link above and convmv is a great tool to fix one's own filesystem. My question is therefore academic, but I find it unsatisfactory (in fact I can't believe) that 'find' is not able to find non standard ascii characters.
Is there anyone out there that would know what combination of options to use to find filenames that contain non standard characters on what seems to be a unicode FS, in my case the characters seem to be 8bits extended ascii rather than unicode, the files come from a Windows machine (iso-8859-1) and I regularly need to fetch them. I'd love to see how find and/or grep can do the same as convmv.
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Jun 6, 2011
What is difference between lvreduce and lvresize command?
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Jun 14, 2010
I have written a set of aliases in a file.When i tried to dot it( "Prompt> . filename" ). It said " Permission denied. "But, when I sourced it ("Prompt> source filename"). It worked perfectly.Linux manual has one entry for both the commands. Then what am I missing ?
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Mar 9, 2011
What is the difference between ext2online and resize2fs command?
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