General :: Word Search In Files Using Bash?
Oct 9, 2010
I'm trying to use Bash to search some directories for a word in one of documents. I've tried:
Code:
$ grep -R Brzeninski /media/disk-1/Dual_Data/
but It never returned a prompt, and i'm not sure what grep means or does.
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Oct 10, 2009
i am using openSUSE 10.3 & like to use power of terminal to do tasks.I want to search all files containing word 'echo' in given folder.What should be command.
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Jun 28, 2011
Want to search for ~ and delete it as well as to append the entire line to the above line. For Ex:
1111xxxx date Sandy area is ~around this area.3222xxx date There seems to ~left side of map, the colours are accurate (showing green areas)Even if I ~zoom in, the green parks, xxx3258 date The dammed up
~away, the "other" body of water varies ~blackNatural gas leaching.
IT MUST LOOK LIKE:
1111xxxx date Sandy area is around this area. 3222xxx date There seems to left side of map, the colours are accurate (showing green areas)Even if I zoom in, the green parks, xxx3258 date The dammed up away, the "other" body of water varies blackNatural gas leaching.
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Feb 16, 2011
I am using ascript for general users to back up usb drives to lto4 tapes.. I wish to ahve some error checking to check IF is there is a tape in the tape drive to check for the tape:
if i do a
sudo mt -f /dev/st0 status
i will get back a
mt: /dev/st0: rmtioctl failed: Input/output error
if there is no tape in the drive or
sudo mt -f /dev/st0 status
[code].....
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Jan 21, 2011
I have a output file look like this:
{"test1" : "test2", "test3" : "test4"},
How can I read word by word in each line?This is not working code:
a=0
while read word
do a=$(($a+1));
[code]...
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May 4, 2010
I am pretty new to bash scripting...I am trying to write a script that will take an input and read it word for word and then DO something with it like echo. I have been able to find how to read word for word from a file but I don't know how to do it with input.
I was looking for something like
Code:
exit 0 The input would be A-Z a-z 0-9 and have a single space between each word.
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Jun 29, 2011
When looking for a certain word or phrase in the man page of linux command, one can type '/' followed by the word/phrase to search for it. What I'd like to be able to do is to search for the next occurrence of the word/phrase without having to type it out again. Kinda like when you use 'ctrl+f' in a browser to search for a word, and then press 'enter' to find the next occurrence of that word.If this is possible to do, how do I do it?
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Mar 4, 2010
Well, I am facing one issue:How can i read two files word by word at a time using any loop as i need word by word comparision in shell script?Please let me know pseudo code.
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Mar 3, 2010
How can I move around the bash commandline efficiently?In the Windows prompt, one can go back or forward one word by pressing ctrl and <-/->.What's the equivalent in a bash environment?
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Mar 9, 2011
Almost by mistake, I figured out you could do something like:
$ cp foo.data bar1.data
$ ^bar1^bar2
And that runs the same command with bar2.data instead of bar1.data. Now, how about if I have multiple occurrences of the target word? For example:
$ cp foo.data bar.data
$ ^data^index
It only replaces the first data extension. How do I get it to replace both?
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Jun 10, 2011
I have a text file that contains a single word and I want to write a bash script that will read the word from the text file... The following is my incorrect attempt, as it assigns the name of the textfile to the variable as opposed to the word stored within the textfile:(assume I have a text file value.txt that has its contents a single word, say wordone)
Code:
#!/bin/sh
for f in value.txt
do
echo $f
done
so the output of the above script is value.txt, however I want it to be wordone.to summarise: how do I assign the value of the word contained within a textfile to a variable?
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Aug 2, 2010
I have a file in the form below, and wish to replace each start line with an increasing number. So instead of:
Code:
start
content content
start
content content
start
[Code]....
After several searches and a bit of messing around, it's clear I'm missing something, so was wondering if anyone could offer any insight?
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Aug 9, 2009
I want to know that how can i search for a word in a file and then comment it or delete it. I know this command works.
sed 's/word/#word/'g inputfile > outputfile
But the lines in my input file are as under:
zone "abc.com" { ---- This line can be comment
type master; ----- This line repeat again and again in the file
file "abc.txt";
allow-query { any; }; -This line repeat again and again in the file
};
I want to know how can i comment a certain zone.
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Nov 28, 2010
I need to search for a string "teststring" in all *.java files coming under /home/user1/ (including subfolders). How can I do it in linux via shell command.
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Dec 19, 2010
total newb here. call me a script kiddie if you want but here is what i need to do and what i have.
need to:search a hidden log file for a specific string, find what comes after that part, and then output the result to a variable or something that can be used by an application or other script to carry out further actions.
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Jun 16, 2010
I am trying to find the word count of a specific word in a collection of documents, in Linux.
I have tried with grep and ack-grep in combination with wc but I can't seem to come up with a valid combination of pipes :)
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Nov 13, 2010
I'm not a newbie to Linux, but I'm a newbie to LQ. I've searched the internet for an answer to an issue I'm having with JOE, to no avail.For my editing purposes, I HATE word wrap. I've read the man page extensively and nothing I try works.
To disable word wrap, it says, simply edit the joerc file and place --wordrap in the first column. Done. It works for .pl, and it works for .c (seems to be built in for C). Bottom line, I cannot disable word wrap for all text files, or at least the ones I want to edit. Has anyone solved this?
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Feb 19, 2010
I have to modify formsweb.cfg file in Oracle IAS.
Problem description
In formsweb.cfg file are two lines with labels archive_jini= and archive= at the beginning of line. After equal sign (=) is row of filenames of java archives delimited by coma(,). When I insert a new jar file in java directory, I have to append the very same name of jar file to both lines if that name is not yet present.
Example snippet from formsweb.cfg
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Feb 1, 2011
find a file or content by name recursively similar to the ms-windows function search with Linux? I can do find . | grep test.html suspecting it's not the best.
For instance, running find . | grep terms.htmlgives my expected result while locate terms.html doesn't even though locate gets updated db - it might have to do with that it's an USB stick the file is on?
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Jul 4, 2010
I would like a command or a bash script that search all files in all sub, modified last 12 hours, in /var/logs and that contains "alfa" or "bravo". The output should be filename of the file or files that contains that.
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Aug 31, 2009
i have finished installing mysql, howeve some of the files were missing, like mysql.h. i have downloaded a DEV version which has all the files im looking for, however when i add my c++ file to the directory that they are in, it still does not run because it cannot find the mysql.h where does the compiler look for these files, or where should i put them?
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Dec 8, 2010
I have grepped a log file to obtain every line that contains a word (let's call it 'blah'). I now want to only display a list of entries within that search result that feature the word 'host' anywhere in the line, and I also want to display the single word *after* 'host' (up until the next space). So, the end result will look like this:
[Code]....
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Aug 27, 2010
when I resize an xterm in fvwm, bash word wrapping is messed up. I don't know if it's from running a program that uses curses or not.
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Dec 2, 2010
How can I search files modified in a specific day?
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Oct 28, 2009
find out a command to search among all *.dat files in a certain path (including subdirectories) looking for the following text in them:
Code:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elements with small area
Element Adjusted nodes
--------- --------------
16294 NO
17889 NO
and getting the list of elements with small area printed in a file "ErrorEl.txt". The output should have this form:
"/path/01/A.dat
bad-el#01
bad-el#02
[code]....
I know already how to find out the dat files containg a certain string
Code:
c=/path/
grep -R --include="*.dat" "Elements with small area" $c | cut -d: -f1>> ErrorEl.txt
but I don't know then how to get the element numbers(16294 and 17889 in the example above)
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Sep 19, 2010
In my application I came across a new requirement where I have to convert RTF files to Word and PDF formatted files. I am searching for an API using which my java application can able to convert the above specified formats.
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Aug 24, 2010
My Linux system has an NTFS disk attached to it. How can I search for all *.txt files on the NTFS partition using Linux?
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Feb 3, 2011
Long story short, I got a folder with nearly 800,000 php files. I would like to search each file for a string and if it exists in that file, the file gets copied to another directory. Is this possible from the terminal? So far I got: grep -i -n -r 'ppr-1792' * | cp $1 move_to_here
But this obviously doesn't work. $1 needs to be the file name that contains matching text.
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Sep 3, 2010
how to search in files text that is one-byte encoding? places - search for files in gnome in ubuntu searches only utf-8 text.i know one way: install wine and total commander, then search with it. what are better ways?[URL]
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Jul 13, 2010
Hello, I need some help searching through multiple files, finding a line and replacing that line. The line I am searching for is:
password key ******* 1222554
ultimately I want to be able to delete the numbers after the asterisks . my thoughts are to create a script that will search for the line password key ******* and delete it then replace it with password key ******* my files are located in /opt and they are all txt files.
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