Questions tagged [grep]
grep is a command-line utility that is used for searching text.
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Given the result of grep -n, how can I open vim in that specific line? (using only keyboard)
When I run grep "keyword" -n and get the following list of results:
a/b/c:10: keyword
a/b/c:70: keyword
a/b/d:50: keyword
How can I open one of the files (say the 2nd in list) in the line ...
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how to compare list of functions from 2 files?
I wanted to list all functions in 2 files I have, so I used:
cat <file_A> | grep -E "^function"
cat <file_B> | grep -E "^function"
How can I compare the outputs and highlight the ...
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How do I transfer certain parts of the file to another file?
I have a FILE1
NAMES START
Hi, How are you?
Good to see you
start
Aaron
Kyle
Robert
stop
Official use only
Stamps here
start
Riley
Gayle
stop
Bicycles here
United Pawns
start
Alex
Ford
Sergio
...
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How do I read line by line in a file using while loop, and in each iteration, grep each line to compare to a string?
I have a file called abc.txt with the contents as follows:
1: It is a shell script
2: There are few lines in this file
3: I am good with programming in C, but beginner in shell
4: We are going ...
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Is it possible to use grep command nested?
I mean, when I run
dpkg -s thunar | grep "Depends"
it displays all dependencies for thunar file manager. How to run, for example
dpkg -s thunar | grep "Depends" | grep "gtk"
to display only ...
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How to grep multiple files with start of same file name + date range
Hi trying to figure out how to grep to list and output multiple file name + date range. Example file name "TW_CAMPAIGN_OB_20180801", would like to search date range from Aug 2018 - Nov 2018. Please ...
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Why isn't grep working with iostat?
I'm trying to collect some disk usage statistics as specified here, for using with this nagios plugin
In short it should get the tps for the second lecture in the output comming from iostat like ...
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After a particular grep match, I want to transfer all the following contents of the file to another file
I have a text file containing the following lines:
This is the first line
Second line
I have a mac
Used to have windows
Comfortable with both
So now I want to grep "I have a mac", and move all the ...
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how to replace a variable in middle of reoccuring commands
I'm in a middle of a merge and I'm trying to find specific variables that went missing in the following way:
grep -Rn "<variable string>" <old_branch> | grep -v Binary | grep -v metadata
...
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How to bulk extract bitrate data from videos and output them in a text file?
I have several videos in a folder;
~/Downloads/movie1.mkv
~/Downloads/movie2.mkv
~/Downloads/movie3.mkv
I would like to extract the bitrate for each file, and output the data into a single text file,...
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“sh: #: unknown operand” - How do I get rid of this error on shell script?
I have a shell script which when executed works fine, but gives a warning:
sh: #: unknown operand
In this shell script, I want to comment out the processes namely "process1" and "process2", which ...
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How can I use the grep --color command to highlight brackets?
I want to highlight every [ in any color so i can see the hidden message here:
[###[#[[[#[###[#[[[#[[[#[###[#[[[
[###[##[##[[##[#[####[##[[##[##[#
[######[##[#[#[#[[[##[##[#[#[##[#
[######[##[##[[#[#...
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How to take value as value without considering it as string when we do cat and grep
I have created the utility that need to be run in all the system without any error by creating the required environment. When ever I run the following command it will take the path value from a config ...
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Terminal only outputs last few lines and everything before is deleted
I am using grep to find strings in multiple files. It outputs a lot of text which is what I need, but then terminal just deletes all the output while grep continues working and so I can see only last ...
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grep and sed only the numbers from a text file's line
I'd like to extract only a number from a text file. It is like:
corner_lat: 49.0425000 decimal degrees
I am using the following expression :
grep corner_lat EQA.dem_par | sed "s,[^0-9]*,,"
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Regex “.*?” giving same output as “.*”
This the file I am using:
Shane is a little to play ball
small
silly
When I use
egrep 's.*l' new
I am getting the output as
Shane is a little to play ball
small
silly
When I use
egrep 's.*?l' ...
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Bash: Trouble passing arguments to grep from script
Trying to learn a little of bash scripting and I end up using the 'grep --color -r -n -i SEARCH .' command a lot, so I figured I'd script that. Problem is that I can't seem to pass my search term to ...
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Using AWK to get second column
I can not seem to get the awk command to get the second column of data.
Bash Code:
filter_data=$(awk "{if(/$filter:/) print $2}" < scanresults_temp.txt)
printf "$filter_data \n"
The $filter ...
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SHASUMS AND grep in verifying Ubuntu download
I'm trying to better understand the use of "SHA256SUMS" and "grep." The Ubuntu verify and authenticate tutorial uses the following term: "sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS 2>&1 | grep OK" to verify the ...
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Why doesn't grep -r also look in subdirectories when I search with a glob? [duplicate]
Grep with -r was not working for me.
I then made a test situation. The directory /home/den/backup now contains a file with the word washer in it. I also made a subdirectory within /home/den/backup. ...
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Splitting data based on semi colon and picking up unique IDs
I have file that looks like this:
26. ZINC19693599
27. ZINC19693598
28. AKOS032468089; ZINC575619353; F6561-5795 ...
29. MolPort-039-321-788; ZINC46759513; AKOS030658283
30. MolPort-039-315-229; ...
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Sorting values and grepping the best score (highest number)
I have a file that looks like this:
7 C00000002 score: -41.156 nathvy = 49 nconfs = 2251
8 C00000002 score: -39.520 nathvy = 49 nconfs = 3129
9 C00000004 score: -...
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How to count the characters within quotes?
Example:
Known Data: Total population = "150"
Question: Using bash how can I find out the number of characters within quotes? and assign that output to a variable?
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How do I use grep to search for lines containing all words in a list with no specific order in a text file? [duplicate]
How can we use grep to get line(s) containing a group of words, while the order of words is not important, although line(s) should contain all words mentioned in search?
I have done that with phasing ...
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How to insert a line break between stderr and stdout
This question helped me understand how to combine stderr and stdout:
How to redirect stderr to a file
with this command:
gunzip -vc /opt/minecraft/wonders/logs/20* 2>&1
But how may one ...
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Find all non-NUL bytes in a file
I am zeroing media with simple pv /dev/zero > ... and want to know if after this command there is any other byte on the media. This would allow me to know that media is corrupted. I assume ideal ...
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Ambiguous redirect, grep command
It was an exercise from one Linux textbook: to give an example both input and output redirected. I found an answer in web:
grep \$Id < *.c > id_list
But this *.c seems to be the problem. ...
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Parsing Text File By Column Pattern
I was wondering if there is an easy way to use awk or any other command to parse a text file such that a file of something like:
Step Temp Enthalpy
0 0 -368
100 1 -369
200 2 -372
300 6 ...
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Is grep 2.25 the most recent version available for ubuntu 16.04? [duplicate]
As I was learning (teaching myself) to use grep, I ran into a problem, some examples I was testing didn't work as I expected. I decided to try to figure out the problem on my own. First I would check ...
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Need help on an egrep regex
I am trying to create an egrep command to grep the number of lines containing a specific text from a text-file but seem to have an error somewhere.
The text-file contains several thousand lines and ...
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grep to search word in a file and result given that word with ZIPfile name that contain that word [duplicate]
Here is what I am doing: I want to find which zip files includes this number with number itself for example i want the result be like this :
7505857289 AIRCDR
where the number is my search result ...
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Script which checks for a running process [duplicate]
I would like to implement a .sh script which checks whether a process is running or not. I place a cron job which runs the .sh script every ten minutes. If the process is not running, I would like to ...
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How to use a script to end a cron job?
I currently have a cron job that I need to stop on shutdown. During power off, I currently run a "shutdown" script, but I am unsure of how to take the PID number I get from ps -ef | grep cron and put ...
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dpkg --get-selections | grep hold not working in 16.04
I am getting this error
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
phpmyadmin : Depends: ttf-dejavu-core but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: mysql-client
E: Unable to ...
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What is uname-r | grep fc?
I was reading a .sh file and find a line written as
if[ "`uname -r | grep fc`" == " " ]; then
But I don't find the meaning of fc and the whole expression.
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Thanks in ...
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“ls | grep zip” vs. “grep zip $(ls)”
I'm learning about expansion/ command substitution, and while paying around with an example, noticed that these two commands have different results.
For example, if I cd into /usr/bin, and run ls | ...
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Ignoring an output with grep
I am currently using grep to locate a string in a file. However, I get a result I do not want.
Example output:
user@user:~/tmp$ grep "z=" note > tmp.txt | cat tmp.txt
z=0.016728
S_1.4 GHz= ...
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Modifying the color of grep
When I grep something, the result is always in red. I know that the command grep --color prints the result in color, which by default is red. Can I change the color?
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how can i grep something out of a list
How can i grep, sed, cut, xargs or awk the output of lspci
I'm looking to get the latency time, the name of the device and the number on the left, whatever that is
I've tried
lspci -vv | egrep ...
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How can i target punctuation marks when dealing with text
I want to print a file like this after i saved it as file.fw
nvram set wl0.2_key4=;
nvram set wl0_wds1_ospf=;
nvram set wl0_stbc_tx=auto;
nvram set wl0_ap_isolate=0;
nvram set wl0_ampdu=auto;
nvram ...
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Searching a word throughout the system without knowing its address [duplicate]
I want to search a word in my computer and i don't know where it is. For example, i wanna search the word Ubuntu in all texts(word, txt,...) on my pc. In present directory, i use cat * | grep Ubuntu ...
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Running a mv command on large amount of data caused disappearance of other folders [closed]
I messed up by running a mv command on the entire contents of an old external drive to my Desktop without making a destination folder first.
I ran
sudo mv /my/external/path/* /home/myself/Desktop/
...
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ack-grep: command not found after upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04
sudo apt-get install ack-grep
gives
ack-grep is already the newest version (2.22-1)
but ack-grep gives
ack-grep: command not found
It was working fine in Ubuntu 16.04, before upgrading to 18.04
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copying files resulting from using grep into a new folder
I have a question concerning the concatenation of two processes in the terminal. I have a folder with over 50.000 files. I used grep to look for those files containing a specific term:
grep -inrl "...
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Bash: info with systemctl
With systemctl status name.service | grep Active I get this info:
Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-05-14 21:44:09 CEST; 5s ago
How can I get the same info but without: "Active: "?
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grep to return Nth and Mth lines before and after the match
I know that with grep I can use the fields -A and -B to pull previous and next lines from a match.
However they pull in all lines between the match based on however many lines are specified.
grep -...
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find grep exec, result
If I run the following command
find ./dir -type f -newermt 2017-04-01 ! -newermt 2018-06-30 -printf "%TY/%Tm/%Td %TH:%TM:%.2TS %p\n" -exec grep -E -l "pattern" {} \; | sort -n;
will return this:
...
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Recently installed ubuntu 18.04 erasing windows, and show no wifi adapter found [duplicate]
on typing : lspci -vnn | grep Network
it showed : 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:d723]
I am using HP Notebook - 15q-by004ax
Wifi was working on ...
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how to scan all clients if they contain files with a specific line of text
So I am going to ask for something major here and that is if I can scan from one device all other connected devices to see if they have a specific line of text in any of their files.
It is a bit ...
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How to find a line starting with 'a' and ending with 'c' using grep?
I have a file named newfile. The contents of this file are:
abc
xyz
abc
Now I want to find lines which start with a and end with c. I enter the following command but the results are not the same as ...
