What I am usinggrep -B 1 -A 2 "Installed" /var/log/updates.logInstead of tailing the log is there a way to grep all lines of the log with word Installed AND today's date? Also, what about grep lines of the log that contain a specific date and more than one word, by example : ('Installed' or 'Failed' on '2011-06-24')?
View 14 RepliesI 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.
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
I'm trying to math all class references in a C++ file using grep with regular expression. I'm trying to know if a specific include is usuless or not, so I have to know if there is a refence in cpp. I wrote this RE that searches for a reference from class ABCZ, but unfortunately it isn't working as I espected:
grep -E '^[^(/*)(//)].*[^a-zA-Z]ABCZ[]*[*(<:;,{& ]'
^[^(/*)(//)] don't math comments in the begging of the line ( // or /* )
.* followed by any character
[^a-zA-Z] do not accept any caracter before the one I'm searching (like defABCZ)
[]* any white space (I can have something like ABCZ var; )
[*(<:;,{& ] followed by ( * < : ; , & { (I cant get #define "ABCZ.h" or ABCZdef for example)
Well, I can get patterns like this:
class Test: public ABCZ{
class Test: public ABCZ {
class Test : public ABCZ<T>
[code].....
I am trying a search for a pattern in the file. I can have any character in the pattern. I am pretty sure I will have $, ", ', ^, ` etc., The Problem I am facing is if I use "" (double quotes) to enclose the pattern, it gives special meaning to $, ^ and " within the string. I have no control over the pattern input. I am getting it from some other file. On the other hand, If I use '' (single quotes) to enclose the pattern, it gives special meaning to the ' (apostrophe) within the string and terminates the pattern prematurely. How do I disable the special meaning these characters have? For example, in perl, I could enclose the pattern within Q and E. Is there an equivalent in grep pattern expression? I could find one in the man page of grep. Is there a solution to this problem?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSuppose i have a file(1.txt) separated by TAB delimiter in a line
1 B AB 2
2 C AB 2
if I need to search for the records having B?? using grep.If i need to perform multiple search like line having "C and AB" or "B and AB"??
I am on Ubuntu 11.04 and using Libre Office 3.3.2 to compose new documents and am saving them using .doc, .ppt and .xls files. (due to having to share them with others who are on Windows systems)
I have a lot of doc files and I need to search for text INSIDE these files. I am perplexed with the fact that no search tool is able to search for text INSIDE these file types. "cat" can display them of course, but grep is not able to locate text INSIDE these file types. I even tried to save a .doc file as an .odt file, but no luck. The Applications>Accessories>Search for Files does not search INSIDE doc, xls or ppt with the option "Contains the text".
I need to kind of grep within grep. My input file would be something like:
[Code]....
and I need to find the first occurrence of hello before MY PATTERN (hello 9008 in this case), so the output should be:
[Code]....
How do i download and install updates? It says package not found.
View 4 Replies View Relatedare there any commands to search your Mac using terminal? I tried usin grep to search but it seems somewhat unresponsive and nothing comes up.
For example, I would type "grep Files" (A folder name) and it just prints a blank line and nothing happens.
Does less have an incremental search?
I'm on xubuntu.
I'm currently trying to design a small, simple enough shell program for area codes. I have a list of area codes in a database, and I am trying to write a program that will have a user input an area code, and then have the program print out information that immediately follows that area code in my database. I assume I need to use a find or locate command, but I'm not sure if I should be searching for a string or the number itself. The number could possibly occur at some other point in the file, though the way I have the file set up it only occurs once at the newline.
what function I should use and how I should go about it? As is I only have the absolute bare-bones beginning of having an echo for the prompt to input an area-code, and the read once it's input. Without the find I'm not sure how much farther I can get. Also, would it make it easier if I added some character such as a ! to the end of the number at the newline to make it easier to search for? With a macro that would be easy enough to do.
I have searched a lot in google regarding the various search commands available for linux, but everywhere i got the commands only for files. But suppose i know the name of a folder but not it's path, then what is the command to search for it's path.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI had opened a file in vim editor in my ubuntu 8.04 & wanted to see if line ends with
(like DOS) or
(in UNIX)
I tried
Code:
:%s/
//gn
& vi editor got hung with processor nearing 50%
Then I pressed ctrl+c & vim resumed with message
Code:
147416605 matches on 1 line
So my question is
(1)why this reaction from vim ?
(2)I want to see all control characters in file.
I used notepad++ in windows & it had option to differentiate tabs, spaces, return etc.
I am in love with this wallpaper [URL] for slackware. I serched in google until page 32 and no image appear that match this one.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI want to search lines with these stings with one or more spaces..
e.g
Code:
a b
a b
a b
a b
How will I achieve this by egrep ?
I often have many windows open on many virtual desktops and I have hard time finding some application.
So is there any tool for searching open windows?
Currently I using Awesome as my window manager, but it does not need to be dependent on it.
I often send and receive gpg-encrypted mail. At the moment I use thunderbird + enigmail (in linux) to do that. As far as I know there is no way in thunderbird to find all encrypted messages which bodies contain particular keywords. There also seems to be no option to save encrypted mails decrypted (so they would be searchable). However for me it is important to be able to search old encrypted mails.
Is there a way in linux to save incoming mails automatically decrypted in my inbox and save outgoing encrypted mail decrypted in the send folder? Both times adding a line to the body which remarks that the mail was encrypted.It could be another email client for linux that could to that or perhaps a solution using procmail or maildrop.For a procmail solution I guess there could be some problems with encoding (perhaps one have to use emil?). Note that the solution should work for multipart encrypted messages (including encrypted attachments) too. The point is that the mails are encrypted on the mailserver or more generally on their "way through the net".
I have a directory that has a large number of files, around 1.5 million at this point. If I go to the directory and type in "ls filename" for a filename that I know exists, ls just hangs. I have let it run for over 20 minutes and it never does anything. Up until yesterday the directory was working fine through samba serving up files, but now it doesn't return anything. How to proceed from here?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm a frequent user of grep. I know that I can recursively search a directory using the -r flag:
Code:
// will recursively search all files
grep -r 'some string' *
However, if I want to limit my search to PHP files, the -r flag is suddenly useless:
Code:
// for some reason, this only searches the PHP files in the current dir
grep -r 'some string' *.php
Any good way to recursively search a directory and its subdirs for a string but ONLY look at PHP or HTML files (and possibly TXT files too) ? I'm really hoping for a nice, short command that doesn't involve using an exclude file and which isn't really painful to type. I do this kind of search very frequently and have resorted to either searching EVERY file which is really slow (TAR and ZIP files really slow it down) OR typing repeated commands to search *.php, */*.php, etc.
I am interested to know solutions for ns2 problems.Basically i am doing mini project using ns2.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to search ALL files on a system for a specific text string? I've been messing around with grep without any luck.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI promise I am carefully studying shell use, and much else, but right now I just need the shell instruction to search directories recursively, for files with .swo & .swp extensions, deleting the files as they're found.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have word like initialize_my_var:in sample.php and I included three library files, take it as a.php, b.php, c.php ,I really don't know where my label(initialize_my_var:)definition is present in my library files, is it possible with a pattern matching string to find which library file really have the exact term "initialize_my_var:" , I'm really looking for an exact pattern match.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was trying to develop a script which needs to check the count of files on hourly basis and if it find any addition it has to sftp and send a email on the status with filenames and number of files copied via sftp. I will put it on cron to run every hour.
I'll use ls /abc|wc -l to count the no. of lines for the first time and from then whenever a new file will be inserted it'll copy that file to another location or I'll take the date of the files and whichever is having a new date that will be copied to another location.
Gparted LiveCD version 0.6.3-3. boots and loads GUI, then searches endlessly for partitions. No luck running it from command line either. Dell laptop set up to dual boot, Windows XP/PCLinuxOS. I want to shrink the Linux Root partition to give more space to the Home,
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am writing a shell script that finds all files named <myFile> in a directory <dir> or any of its subdirectories, recursively. I also need to take care of symbolic links that may form cycles, to avoid infinite loops. I am not supposed to use find command for the same
I started writing the code but got stuck. I thought using recursion may be a smart way, but its not working.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
findFiles()
{
thisDIR=$1
#cd $thisDIR
code....
I would like to search a specific directory and pull out filenames that have this pattern: "_bsc_" Then I want to do some processing and move the file to another directory
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just want to know if we can search for a particular string in all files of a particular folder in linux. if a folder has 100files only that hundred files needs to be checked for a particular string.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need a English dictionary to search meaning of words. I have done google searches as well as searched this forum but was unsuccessful in finding one. I am trying to find and install an offline dictionary i.e. it should work even if there is no internet connection. It should not be online dictionary.
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