General :: Ls: Cannot Access Grep: No Such File Or Directory
Mar 16, 2010
I ran into a bit of trouble making a bash script. (Desktop is a directory, and I try to get it's modification date)
Code:
lamp:~# cmd='ls -l Desktop | grep -o "....-..-.. ..:.."'
lamp:~# $cmd
ls: cannot access |: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access grep: No such file or directory
[code]....
When I type in the command directly, without using an inbetween variable, it works fine.
Can't log into my XFCE desktop like I normaly do. all the sudden I get notified that my xsession lasted less then 10 secondsLooking at the error I can see this:
Unable to access file /home/username/.iceauthority: No such file or directory
Using failsafe I can start a terminal. From terminal I tried to start X
Code: sudo startx Result: Running on desplay:0
So I tried to run this;
Code: sudo startxfce4 And I get up a graphical desktop.
So this is not a critical situation as I easily can use this method to log on, but as there has been something causing this I would like to be able to resolve this nonetheless. Btw it is not the old chmod trick in play here, cause my .iceauthority file is gone alltogheter.
count=`ls *.php -l | wc -l` if [ "$count" -ne "0" ]; then mv *.php ~/Desktop/PHP
[code]....
With this code I am attempting to ensure a php file exists, then attempting to move it to another folder. My script has 40 or so extensions, this is one of many. My problem is this: if the current folder contains no php files i receive an error.
ls: cannot access *.php: No such file or directory
Typically I would use 2> /dev/null to handle output suppression but in this case it prevents the variable assignments.
My home directory's permissions allow only myself access to it. Is it possible to put a file inside my home directory with.. say.. full permissions, and create a symlink to it so other users can access that file alone inside my home folder? System is Ubuntu Karmic.
someone once told me that use can pass a file to grep and use that to search the contents of another file. if that is the case I'm not entirely sure why the following isn't working for me.
Let me *try* and explain what I'm trying to do, and keep in mind aside from a little command line stuff I'm a beginner to any of what I'm asking about.
So that whatever was captured in the () in the first part of the statement would be used in the 1 in the back part of the statement for every n.chatlog that might be in any of the /webserver directories at that time.
I'm storing a list of strings in a file and would like to read the file and pipe each line returned to grep which in turn searches a directory for files containing the string.However this is not returning any output.
I would like to write a newline delimeted rules file using PCREs for use with the grep command. Grep has the option -f to obtain the search pattern from a file, and option -P to search using PCREs. However, these two options do not work together. The -f option only seems to work with fixed string rules.A friend previously helped me get around this limitation somehow, but I can't remember how he did it. I also would like the ability to add comments at the end of each rule in the file.
I have a number of files:FooBlahhFooI only want to be able to grep for names in a file that contain Foo and not BlahhFoo. However I am not able to pull only those files away. How can this bee done. My grep/zgrep knowledge only goes this far at this point. I'm still learning but I'm stuck on how to make my arguments more precise zgrep 'Foo' SomeFileIMade.gz > /home/user/FOOFILE
I am trying to access log file which located in /etc/log/apache2. I could get into the directory using `su`. I was able to run ls command under the directory and everything was file. I could run a command,
ls -d /var/log/apache2/*
However after I switched to my account, I got an error. sudo ls -d /var/log/apache2/* ls: cannot access /var/log/apache2/*: No such file or directory
I want to use this command in a bash script to get a list of log files. Should I write the script as root and run it as root?
I'm using Mac OS X's Terminal.app shell to compile and run Fortran programs. One such program resides outside of my home directory (it is in the Applications folder, which resides on my hard drive but seems to be outside of my home folder). How can I navigate into this directory using Terminal.app to run the programs that reside there?
I have a list of words that I want to grep in many files to see which ones have it and which ones dont. in the text file I have all the words listed line by line, ex: list.txt:
check try this word1 word2 open space list ..
I want to grep each line one by one. like I want it to
grep "check" *.log grep "try this" *.log grep "word1" *.log .. etc how can I do this?
I would like to grep all values other than encrypted password from /etc/shadow fileFor example,each line consists of 8 fields separated with :/The only thing that I want not to print out is the contents between first : and second : (encrypted password)
how to update a series of values from multiple grep commands outputs to be appended to a single row of a csv file? Work on a linux envir. The values from grep output will be numeric values.
Output sold look like:
1,3,4,5,7,0,5
Each of these values will be odtained from multiple grep commands piped with wc -l Is it possible to update a single row of a csv file if so pleas ehelp me with the command to be used to redirect the output into the csv file
remove a line starting with specific word with grep. Here is what I found
grep -v '^cc$' data.txt
Here I remove all lines with on 'cc' in that line. But I want the result write back to data.txt
I try several ways
grep -v '^cc$' data.txt > output.txt # works but to another file echo `grep -v '^cc$' data.txt` > data.txt # didn't work, all carets gone, become one line grep -v '^cc$' data.txt > data.txt # data.txt is empty after running this
How can I save the result of grep to the input file?
I can access my NAS box with telnet but the file I am looking for is not in the expected directory. Of course I could go through all the directories using ls -a but that would take days. Is there a command I can run to look for the file for me using the telnet console?
To search a string pattern in all files in a directory and subdirectories, I am using;
Code: grep -R "myclass::my-func(" mydirectory/ Now I want grep, to search in only specific file types say *.cc. Please help me. I have read manual of grep, but could not deduce any hint. Best Regards.
I'm trying to manipulate a large text file full of records (metadata - one complete record per line). I need to delete every line on which certain words appear - there are five different words, all pretty simple all-caps strings with occasional whitespace. I tried using grep -v, which worked a treat, but only string-by-string. Ideally I'd like to run this as grep -v -f, where the file targeted by the -f contains the strings I need to match in order to delete the lines they're in.
i.e. grep -v -f filecontainingSTRINGS.txt targetfile.txt > outputfile.txt
When I try this, however, I don't get any matches - or more specifically, no changes are made in the output file. It works fine if there's only one string in filecontainingSTRINGS, but it doesn't work if there's more than one (I'm using newline as the delimiter). (Also my machine doesn't recognise /usr/xpg4/bin/grep - no idea what that's all about!)