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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General :: Search For A String In A Php File Using `grep`?
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 :: How To Make Grep To Search A Pattern In Only Specific File Type?
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.
Programming :: Grep Search Between N-m
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?
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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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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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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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?
Fedora :: Configure Grep To Search Recursively Through All Files In A Directory?
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 ?
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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Nov 22, 2010I need to kind of grep within grep. My input file would be something like:
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and I need to find the first occurrence of hello before MY PATTERN (hello 9008 in this case), so the output should be:
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Ubuntu :: Multiple File Search \ Search A File For A Certain Keyword?
Nov 13, 2010for example we search a file for a certain keyword..is there any application available which will enable us to search for a single keyword in all the files within the folder ?i want to search for a keyword in about 1000 files..if i do it manually it will take loads of time..
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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?
Programming :: Variable String File Base - Output File Doest Not Exclude The Values In Grep -av
May 1, 2011My script.
This is may script:
Code:
Problem: Output file doest not exclude the values in grep -av
General :: Grep The Contents Of A File With Another File?
Sep 25, 2010someone 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.
Code:
[root@LCENT01:~]#grep -i id_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys
[root@LCENT01:~]#cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
[root@LCENT01:~]#grep -i id_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys
Ubuntu :: 'grep' Exactly Half Of A File?
Jun 29, 2010so i have a data file of a couple thousand lines. for example, my file will look like this (condensed of course):
Code:
something something 100 something 1 2 3
something something 101 something 4 5 6
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General :: Use Grep, Cut, Or Awk To Get An IP From A File?
Feb 3, 2010I have a file which contains a line like this:SERVER=10.205.110.19 How can I cut out the IP and assign it to a variable?
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Jan 27, 2011I have file which consists of many files with their path,i need to check for the file exists in the given path,how to check?
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Aug 13, 2010I am trying to compare a list of patterns from one file and grep them against another file and print out only the unique patterns. Unfortunately these files are so large that they have yet to run to completion. Here's the command that I used:
Code: grep -L -f file_one.txt file_two.txt > output.output Here's some example data:
Code:
>FQ4HLCS01BMR4N
>FQ4HLCS01BZNV6
>FQ4HLCS01B40PB
>FQ4HLCS01BT43K
>FQ4HLCS01CB736
>FQ4HLCS01BU3UM
>FQ4HLCS01BBIFQ
how to increase efficiency or use another command?
General :: Grep Or Sed Or Awk For File Manipulation?
Dec 7, 2010Let 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.
I have a directory structure something like this:
Code:
/usr/local/chatlogs/
webserver1/
1.chatlog
2.chatlog
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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.
Fedora :: Grep A File For Each '#' Character And Utf-8
Aug 15, 2010I 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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General :: Grep 2 Items In A File?
Dec 31, 2010I have collection my routers configuration through rancid. Now i want to do the following,
Display all the files that contain the following words
C1841 AND HWIC-4ESW
I want to display all the files that contains both these words.