I 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 RepliesIs 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 need sed to be able to search a string that includes both single quotes (') and double quotes ("). can anyone help me out, there has to be a way to do this.
So far I have tried:
But none of these work and I cannot think of how else to escape the sed quote inside of brackets.
I am a member of a group which has written a program whose source code is being held in a specific directory (~cs252/Assignments/basicAsst/project) and we want to go through and change the parameters for the function "sequentialInsert." My job is to find all occurances of the function call to "sequentialInsert" and to also list the files from where the code came from. Also, I have to be in the commandsAsst directory when I do this. I have tried grep and find combined together, and I am at a lost.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using grep command to search in a particular file whose size is 11 GB and i am getting Segmentation fault error as an output. My command and output is as follows:
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[sdpuser@gnnsdp40 test]$ cat new* | grep 8858406465
Segmentation fault
My linux version is as follows:
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[sdpuser@gnnsdp40 test]$ uname -a Linux gnnsdp40 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:48 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
how i can parse the complete file for searching string. I have also used split command of linux which splits the file of 11 GB to 11 files of 1 GB each respectively. But still getting the same "Segmentation fault" error while using grep.
I have a set of lines as ahown below:
Leon went to school
Leon came back from school..
Leon had dinner...
I have to replace the line containing "dinner" by a single string LUNCH...
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 Relatedwhy the file manager, nautilus is it called? can't cope with folders with extremely large numbers of files in it, is there a fix? if not could be a future project for future distributions, i have some folders with 20, 000+ files in it, for rendering fractal animations, i am trying to free up some room, the trash can can't empty it from trash because there are so many files, and when i try to open the folder, it crashes and restarts completely
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a file which provide the output of all the applications which started and running successfully. But it doesn't give the Error message of the applications which are failed. For example there are 5 applications (ABC,DEF,NMO,STO,XYZ) and application STO failed so I will get the following output (out.txt). content of out.txt file
Application ABC is Running
Application DEF is Running
Application NMO is Running
Application XYZ is Running
I want to generate the text message based on the information on out.txt that STO application is Failed.
I need a hand with a line of terminal commands. I need to be able to search a given .sh file in a given location for a string, and when found, add a "#" to the start of that string and save the file back to it's original location.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMoving right along, I have a folder of MP3 files containing various Movie sound tracks and scores. I'm using Audio Tag Tool to tag all the files at once with an "Artist" of "Soundtrack", and to inherit the "Title" tag from the file name. After that, I will rename all the files (Using Audio Tag Tool -- awesome program, btw) with the format "<Artist> - <Title>.mp3"
The problem, is many of my files already contain the string "Soundtrack", which would be redundant. I happen to be a perfectionist, so I'm unable to ignore it and move on. Hence my question to you fine folk: I want to delete all instances of "soundtrack" (-i case irrelevant) in the filenames before I go through the above steps. But, its not quite that simple. This is a sample of some of the file names:
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I am running Linux and I have some basic console knowledge but my current problem is quite difficult and I dont know how to achieve this. I want/need to rename everything within a folder that matches a given string.
By everything I mean:
folders/files
content within a file
content in hidden files
Basically I want to refactor a Java-project. Sure, I could use Eclipse to handle the replacing, but this leaves out the folders or resources outside of my workspace. I was thinking of a script that could do the job for me but this seems rather tricky. For instance when it comes to folder-/file-rename I want to replace only the part of the name that matches my string, the rest should remain untouched.
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.
I'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 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.
I 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 am looking for a way to search for large numbers in text files and print the nearby lines.
For example if I had a text file like:
Event: 11
blah: 3
blah: 41 bleh: 19
Event: 2
blah: 31
[Code].....
I'm trying to retrieve a single string or value from /proc/cpuinfo, but when I try to extract the model (not the model name) the model name comes with it, also it likes to print it twice...
Code:
model="`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model | cut -d: -f2 | cut -c1-3`"
echo $model
All i want this to do is spit out the model number once. (I need to pass it to another script)
After I assign a string to a variable, I know that the print function will remove the single quotes around the value, but is there a way to assign a variable without the quotes around the value? for example:
a = open('/usr/lib', 'r+')
b = f.read()
c = x.replace('.xx','yy')
d = ?
c returns the value with quotes around it print c returns the value without the quotes Is there a way to assign a new variable (d) which will equal c without the quotes? I need a new variable which has the quotes omitted because from there the script will take the value of the last variable (which is a path to a file), and tar up that file. It won't recognize the path to the file if the value has quotes around it.
In Linux bash shell, for a given directory, how can I list:The create date for that directory The number of files in that directory The number of subdirectories in that directory.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow would i go about copying all .jpg or .JPG files from a folder and all its subfolders to my /usr/name/pictures folder? I'm guessing I'd have to use some sort of .[jJ][pP][gG] to get all the pictures from other examples i've seen, but really not sure how to use that in a recursive cp.
View 14 Replies View Relatedi need to copy files from a folder called output files to another folder called running but im not able to do it i always get a stat error
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a large text file that's formatted sort of like this:
Code:
foo bar
blah
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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.
View 3 Replies View Relatedfollowing can be used to locate files that contain the contents 'SomeString' or 'SomeOtherString':
Code:
find /home/username/public_html -type f -print0 | xargs -0 egrep -l 'SomeString|SomeOtherString'
How would I limit this to searching for the text 'SomeString' or 'SomeOtherString', but only if the file has extension .php, .inc or .js? Also - what piping to xargs does here? I don't understand how this command actually works.
I am trying to remove all the files in a directory hierarchy which a certain string inside the file (not the file name, it is the file content).
I can list out all the file name which has a string in the file using 'grep -r -l mystringlooking for'.
But how can I remove all the files returned by the grep ? I am trying this on ubuntu.
How can you remove files containing a specific string?I have...Code:find |grep 'string'This may return several results and I wanted to rm the results.I also have...Code:ls -l |grep 'string'|awk '{print $9}'which also may return results.But point is, I can't supply the results as a parameter to rmI was thinking of looping but I don't know how to access the results as if they were an array or something.
View 5 Replies View Relatedfind 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
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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)
I got a folder that I transfer stuff to all the time. the folder is in chmod 775 but when i upload folders and files, they are given chmod 700, but i want it chmod 775 everytime i upload something. so far i have logged in to my linux computer and did a chmod -R 775 to the folder every time i uploaded something to it. is there a function somewhere to make it 775 everytime i upload or can i have something run a script, so i don't have to go in and write it everytime i upload something?
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