Ubuntu :: Is There A Variation Of Grep To Search Files For Keywords
Jul 10, 2010I know you can use grep to find keywords in filenames, but is there a variation that can enable you to search the content of the files themselves?
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Ubuntu :: Search Files Containing A String / Grep Command?
Sep 1, 2011how to search for those files which contain word "AM_COLLECTION=22". I need to know all the files with this string. ( I know the grep command can do it but either
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Oct 1, 2010somewhere lurking is a file containing the default print resolution, which is not being overwritten by printer settings or cups management. I've asked on the cup forum and nothing successful.
So here's the question:
How can I configure grep to search recursively through all files in a directory, or if need be starting from root to find the pattern "2880" I've looked in the man page for grep and I can't see how to do it, is grep the right tool to use for this ?
Debian Multimedia :: Edit The Search Keywords In Iceweasel?
Mar 24, 2010Is there a way to edit the search keywords in Iceweasel other than by clicking on the drop-down arrow on the search bar and selecting "Manage search engines"?
I searched for "keyword" as well as some of my current keywords in about:config but didn't find anything.
Ubuntu :: Grep Can't Search Pdf File?
Jun 2, 2010i want to search some key words in some pdf files grep myword ~/test.pdf that command can't work! grep command can't search pdf file??
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Oct 5, 2010How can i use grep (or any other command) to check for lines that begin with N number.
E.g. I want to print out commands (from history), but only from the command number 50 until #200.
This one doesn't work:
Code:
history | grep "^[50-200]"
Should print out something like:
Code:
50 cd ~/Desktop
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Ubuntu :: GREP - Return Only Search String?
Jan 13, 2011I have a mail.log file, of which I want to redirect only the search strings of the sender from=<example.sender@exampledomain.com> and the size size=4537 to a file.
In every case the sender string starts as from=<> and the size string starts as size=
What would be the grep command to redirect only the two search strings to a .txt file?
General :: Use Grep To Search For Multiple Options?
May 20, 2010How can I use grep to search for line with either 'res' or 'rep'? i try "grep -e res|rep" or gre -e "rep|rep" but that does not work.
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Jan 19, 2010I 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
General :: Search A Grep For A Magic Word?
Feb 16, 2011I 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
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General :: Using Grep / Awk To Search For Colored Text
Sep 17, 2010I have done a bunch of searches on this but the terms seem to get tangled in the more popular search of "colouring the output of grep / awk". I am trying to find a way to grep/awk through the output of a command to find text of a specific colour. The command's output has a range of colours signifying too many different things to specify using text, with colour being the only form of grouping.
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Feb 10, 2010I 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.
Ubuntu :: Piping Command Output Into Grep As Search Term?
Nov 11, 2010I want to pipe the output of a command into grep as the search TERM, rather than the text to be searched, like this for example
Code:
cat /var/log/auth.log | grep date "&b &d"
so that I only see the lines in auth.log for the current day...but obviously that line doesn't work.... is there a way to do this with grep, or even another command?
General :: Correct Usage Of Grep To Search A Disk?
Mar 26, 2009I've been trying to identify all files on my cut-down version of Damn Small which contain the text string "User Agent:" in them. Because it's only 120Mb in its entirety, I'm quite happy to have grep search the whole system. I'm using this command, but it just generates errors as you can see:
[root@localhost ~]# grep -R 'User Agent:' /*
grep: /dev/dri/card0: Invalid argument
grep: /dev/fuse: Operation not permitted
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General :: Search Date Period In Access Log Using Grep ?
Feb 19, 2010I have a three input day,month and year. Currently i am using the following script to take the data.
Any grep advanced technique to avoid for loop?
Software :: Grep Recursive Search Directory Depth Option ?
Feb 28, 2011I know grep can search recursively (ie through all subdirectories to the bottom of the directory tree), but is it possible to ask grep to only search say, 3 levels down? That means the current directory, any directories in the current directory, and within any directories within those?
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Mar 6, 2010To 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.
General :: Sed/awk/grep Search For Number String Of Variable Length In Text File?
Jan 19, 2010I 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.
General :: Search By Content On Ubuntu - Grep -rl "text Here" It Freezes?
Feb 19, 2011I'd like to search the entire server by content. (text file) When I try grep -rl "text here", it freezes. How would you do it? And how long does it usually take?
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Jun 17, 2010I use the following command to find under /var some param in my script
grep -R "param" /var/* 2>/dev/null |grep -wq "param"
my problem is that: after grep find the param in file grep continue to search until all searches under /var/* will completed
How to perform stop immediately after grep match the param word
For example when I run the: grep -R "param" /var/* 2>/dev/null |grep -wq "param"
grep find the param after one second.
But grep continue to Search other same param on other files and its take almost 30 seconds
How to stop the grep immediately after param match?
Ubuntu :: Unity Files And Folders Search Doesn't Show 'old' Files?
Jul 20, 2011I have noticed that the files and folders search in Unity, only shows up those files which have been amended (or possibly just opened) since the install.
i was wondering if there was a way i could have the search index (or something vaguely equivalent) all the files on my machine. This is especially important given that i reinstall the OS every six months on a new distribution cycle, copying all my old files across.
Without being able to see my old files the search is pretty much reduced to a recent history search.
Ubuntu Installation :: Variation That Can Be Installed On An USB Stick?
Jan 18, 2010so i know that i can create a live usb stick, but i dont want to do that. i want a full install of the system on the stick. at the moment i have a 2GB usb stick, and when i try to install kubuntu, i get an not enough space error. thats understandable. but if there is an ubuntu variation that i can install on less than 2GB of space (and optionally run the KDE environment), then please provide a link. if there isnt an ubuntu variation, then please provide something other then Damn Small Linux.
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Jan 4, 2011I de-crappified a new laptop last week for a friend and set him up with OpenOffice.I had earlier salvaged files from his old PC HD, saved them to my Box. Most of his office files were actually the dreaded M$ Works (.wps)But I tried them and OpenOffice had no trouble, least in Linux that is.I burned his files to a DVD-RW and copied them to his new Laptop. OpenOffice for windows wouldn't have anything to do with the .wps filesStrange or what !
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Jul 1, 2011I'm attempting to find a particular word wherever it appears within a massive directory listing of teeny tiny text files -- and then copy all files containing this word into a "staging" directory.
Whenever I use the command below (on a test folder of smaller scale), it never carries the directory structure but attempts to copy all files within the "output" folder.
Code:
cp `grep -ir 'word' *` output
how to copy all these text files and have them retain some sort of directory structure?
Programming :: Variation In Value Returned From Gettimeofday()
Dec 29, 2010I needed to find the time it takes to execute a for loop... I decided to use the gettimeofday() function and wrote the following code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sched.h> // for use of sched_setaffinity
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Software :: Downloaded The 64 Bit Variation And Then Burnt It And Booted From It?
Jun 12, 2010I decided to install Fedora today ( from Debian ) so I downloaded the 64 bit variation and then burnt it and booted from it. My partition table before looked like this ( the XXXs of values I do not know ) :
Code:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 10.5GB 10.5GB primary fat32 diag
2 10.5GB 110GB 100GB primary ntfs
3 110GB 111GB 98.7MB primary ext2 boot
4 111GB 320GB 209GB extended
5 111GB 315GB XXXXXX logical ext3 XXXX
6 315GB 320GB 5124MB logical linux-swap(v1)
I wanted to seperate my /home and / (root) partitions in my new system so that in the future, distro-hopping would be easier. I deleted everything in my fifth partition except for my home folder, from which I moved my home folder ( /home/whales ) to the top layer of the partition ( now /whales ).
I then did a yum install gparted so I could shrink partition 5 (now going to be /home) and add another 20gb one for / (root). Unfortunately Gparted spat out an error about the kernel not reading the partition table until reboot ( but first it succeeded in shrinking the FS to 286GB ). I panicked and tried to format p5 to ext3 ( it was ext3 ) but then realised this was dumb before it could 'create the ext3 filesystem' and I cancelled the operation.
I then rebooted, realising I should have done what the error said to in the first place.Nope. The partition was 'empty' apart from lost+found ( which is empty ). Nuts I thought to myself. The filesystem must have been overwritten . I tried a 'rescue' on parted on the command line, but that did not work. So I then removed the parition reference and then tried a rescue, but nothing happened. No output other than progress, and now I am stuck with this layout:
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CentOS 5 Hardware :: CPU Throttling - Frequency Variation
Jan 12, 2011I have de Dell desktop (optiliex 755) and i have instal CentOS 5.5 on it. Some informations about the system are:
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Dec 30, 2010I want grep multiple files:
let abc.1.abc.2,abc.3,abc.4
I use grep <pattern> abc.* to read the files. But here grep read files in the order of 1,2,3,4 . I want to to grep the files in reverse order like 1st the abc.4 file will be read and abc.1 file will be last.
Is this possible ?
General :: Get Files That Match ALL Patterns (using Grep)?
Jun 9, 2010I want to traverse a directory and get a list of files that contain a set of patterns. I assumed I could use grep for this, but I having trouble getting grep to only return files that match ALL patterns. Here's what I've come up with so far:
Code:
grep --recursive --file=searchpatterns.txt --files-with-matches somedirectory/*
However, this gives me a list of files that match ANY of the patterns in the searchpatterns.txt file. I want to match ALL of the patterns. I've looked through the man page, but can't find anything that allows me to change the "OR" to "AND" for multiple patterns.
General :: Searching For PHP Files With Find And Grep
Nov 2, 2010I 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.