I want to match some filename in some text, but the filenames I have no control of, so "[" can "]" can appear in the filenames.so do I always have to use sed to addslashes to these variables before I have to grep them? and what other characters have I missed other than "[", "]", "."?
View 4 RepliesOperating System: CentOS 5.4 I have a bash script that runs another php script to return a decrypted password. The return value is right but when I concatenate it with another string, I would not have the whole string. To better understand the problem, here is my script:
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#!/bin/bash
getProperty()
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1.What character instructd the shell to interpret a special character as an ordinary character?
2.What directory contains some of the utilities available on the system in the form of binary files?
3. What command is used to search the location of a utility?
4. What command is used to instruct the editor to write the file and quit the editor?
5. What key quits the more utility and displays the shell prompt?
6. What command starts a child shell as the super user, taking on root's identity and environment?
7. Which wildcard characters can be used for searching all the files in the system that start with "A"?
8. The user name or login name of the super user is????
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I need to search a text file for a string of numbers which are different lengths, and always are between number=" and " like:
number="1234567890"
number="22390"
I need to grab those numbers and pipe each one to a line in a file. I've already tried something with awk and that didn't seem to work.
How to grep a string like "ab?c12345678" where 3rd character is unknown, while other characters are known.
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This is may script:
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Problem: Output file doest not exclude the values in grep -av
I need to search for the following pattern with GREP in a text file:
So I tried already:
But none of those works...I think probably because GREP doens't like the special character > in the middle of the serach pattern.
At the end I just need to now if GREP found the pattern in the file or not, so it should give me a 0 or a 1 back, once I check the value of the variable "?" after using the grep command.
I am filtering some output from gcc with grep. But if the output contains the accent character (`) I run into a problem.Then I have to press ctrl/c to get back to a prompt.
(1) Can someone tell me what is going on? I suspect that it is trying to match up the accent with another accent. But my output is from gcc and there is no control over the fact that it uses an accent and a single quote around a name.
(2) Can someone tell me how to do the grep so it does not give the ">" prompt but instead locates "xcvr" in my example?
I am having difficulty getting sed to replace a string of text in an XML file, despite the fact that I have no trouble using grep to find that same string. Since the new string and old string to be replaced contain a lot of special characters, I thought it best to store them in variables as opposed to using a slew of backslashes:
OLD_STRING='<property name="webServiceHost">${jboss.bind.address}</property>'
NEW_STRING='<!--<property name="webServiceHost">${jboss.bind.address}</property>-->'
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Below is extract of my file:
What I need is to replace "--destination-path=" with "--destination-path=/home/dest"
i.e. desired output is ----destination-path=/home/dest
I could achieve it with below command
$cat outgoing-xfer|grep destination-path|perl -pi -e "s/destination-path=/destination-path=/home/dest/g"
But the problem is that in this case i just wanted to append "/home/dest" for which I could easily escape "/" with just two "", but I wonder if i have a long path like "/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j" I will have to escape so many /. Is there any other way by which I can avoid escaping forward slash.
I tried following:
But receiving follo error
Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "s/destination-path=/'destination-path=/home"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "s/destination-path=/'destination-path=/home"
Bad name after dest' at -e line 1. tried with enclosing in double quotes as well but in vain
Today, i checking my error log of Apache. I have look many IP brute scan URLo, i collect, export that to ip.txt and i need grep IP with connection >=8I don't know command to solve that. Example ip.txtQuote:
101 210.13.73.30
161 58.210.77.98
164 115.168.71.87
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I have created a shell script to customise mv command, now i have achieved to accomplish all the functionality of mv by using alias. But i found difficulty in accomplish the funcionality with options [Like mv -i or mv -f etc.]. I thought about logic which check the first argument whether its starting with a minus [-] or not. if its starting with argument it will set a flag and execute accordingly. But whenever this condition is checked it shell script will throw error of destination operand missing. But the same will work with out option.
Note: I have used an minus[-] expression for decreasing a counter on the script above. The below mentioned is the portion of script. Sry for troubling Im not gud @scripting.
for i in $*
do
{
argument=`expr $argument - 1`
if [ $argument = 0 ];
then
exit
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I want to remove single quote from a variable. eg: Suppose I have a variable VAR='TEST' (including single quotes) How can I remove single quotes and make it TEST.
View 5 Replies View RelatedQ: Is there any way to use grep and sed with a string variable rather than with a file?
The problem: Im running through a LARGE (about 10,000 lines) xhtml file and need to replace every instance of lines beginning <p>~
The following code works but takes a long time mainlly because an in/out operation needs to be carried out on each line. If I could read from a string rather than a file it would take a much shorter time!
Code:
#!/bin/bash
count=$((0))
>tpf
echo "waiting....."
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How can I search "$" in vim, which is not the end of line but the real char '$'.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow do I find a string in files in a directory. And these file names begin with letter a. I also want to get the number of occurrences of this string from the grep I run.
I tried this:
cat * | grep -c string but it searches all files. I just want to search files that begin with letter a
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?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am searching for Class declaration on a site with hundreds of PHP files, how can I do this in the current folder and subfolders using GREP?
I tested cding to the folder and then something like
grep -r 'class MyClass' *.php
my script has a variable which comes in the form +00.00 +0.00 -00.00 or -0.00 (the numbers can be any in that form) for any that have a + symbol I need to remove the +, but if it has a - symbol it needs to stay.
i need to make a new variable with the string from the old variable btut without any plus sign. I have tried a lot of different ways with no success, each thing I tried either left the + or removed the entire string. I think this should work but doesn't
foo=+12.40
bar=${foo#+}
I would like to grep two numbers out of a text file, and divide them.
Here is the script code...
It feels like grep saves a new line too? or what is happening? i simply can't divide them, as it handles the variables as they are empty (and prints the two numbers although they were not printed
I am having trouble using grep command. I want to search for each line in first file in second file and if they are present, write to file called successfile else to failfile. Below is the code
what is happening is, when the first failure occurs (when a line in first file is not present in second file), the script is killed.
Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? code...
I'm facing problems in developing the script as there are errors that sometimes i dun have any idea on how to solve it.What i'm doing now is not homework, but i had been assigned to develop some system in linux.
My problem currently is on sub-string matter, where i need to read the line from file/directory and based on the line retrieved,i need to seperate the information in the line and assign as variable..
Below are my script:
Thus, the output something like this: file_name successfully ran on Mon Jul 12 23:15:00 SST 2009.
Now, what i need to do is to extract certain information from that line which is the name, date, time and the status
The desired output is:
So,my next step is to identify the sub-string and assigned as variable first in order to parse the info and output it.
Thus,my script is:
But i received error message which is:
I need a script that will replace '/' in a variable with ''I have tried the following:
Code:
y=$(echo $1|sed 's///\/g')
The thing is that this approach does not always work. Here is an example:
Code:
user@pc:~$ sh script.sh /usr/var/sakis.txt
z:usr
arsakis.txt
user@pc:~$ sh script.sh /usr/tar/sakis.txt
z:usr arsakis.txt
Is there a way to treat those characters?
How do i convert variable to string?
For example:
So how do i make the code with variable work?
we have Centos linux and database postgresql and taking dump in .data files. need to find all speical character in my database dump .data files it is open in txt paid and store in one txt file. e.g of special character are as below.
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I have two systems at hand. One a Debian box, the other a RHEL5 box. On the Debian box there is a MySQL server (5.0.32-Debian_7etch1) running which hosts Databases from a customized content management system. This system has grown over time and the tables are stored with different collations. Now I want to export and reimport the data on the RHEL5 MysQL server (5.0.45).
And here the special character hell begins. It doesn't matter if I reimport the data as utf8, as latin1 or latin1_swedish_ci. Everytime the special characters are wrong and distorted. Surprisingly the data that is shipped with the unmodified CMS displays the special chars correctly after installation. But I have to import the modified version from the old server as there are lots of modifications to import.
Old server:
Quote:
character set client utf8
(Global value) latin1
character set connection utf8
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New server:
Quote:
character set client utf8
(Global value) latin1
character set connection utf8
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I am trying to grep a particular string from the files of 2 different servers without copying and calculate the total count of its occurence on both files. File structure is same on both servers and for reference as follows:
Code:
27-Aug-2010 10:04:30,601|919122874903|phtunes_app|1282243292627|NotifySmsReception|DMGenerateLogInterceptor - ExternalTransactionID:SDP-DM-26713018, TransactionStatus:Requested
27-Aug-2010
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I do this:
Code:
a@b:~$ export A=hi
a@b:~$ echo $A
hi
a@b:~$ bash -c "export A=blah; echo $A"
hi
a@b:~$
Why doesn't the bash command print the new value of $A? Is there a way to make it do so?
I have a file (.tmpfile) and inside it is a string which i only know part of, the rest being a random group of characters... I would like to know how to pull the whole string out of the file and into a variable.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI want to grep a a file for each '#' character that starts a line, the thing is the file is utf-8 and it starts with some some characters 'ef bb bf' is there a way to have grep to work with utf-8 files ?
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