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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] Wildcards used in find, ls and grep commands Post 302730581 by vbe on Tuesday 13th of November 2012 08:48:23 AM
Old 11-13-2012
About grep:
Code:
slo4:/export/home/vbe $ cat file*.txt
Blue skies
blutt
Blott on the landscape
#
slo4:/export/home/vbe $ grep "blu" *.txt  
file001.txt:blutt
slo4:/export/home/vbe $ grep "Blu*" *.txt
file001.txt:Blue skies
file001.txt:Blott on the landscape
slo4:/export/home/vbe $ grep 'Blu*' *.txt
file001.txt:Blue skies
file001.txt:Blott on the landscape
slo4:/export/home/vbe $ grep Blu* *.txt   
file001.txt:Blue skies
file001.txt:Blott on the landscape
slo4:/export/home/vbe $ grep Blu *.txt  
file001.txt:Blue skies
slo4:/export/home/vbe $ uname -sr
SunOS 5.10
slo4:/export/home/vbe $

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XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)

NAME
xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard SYNOPSIS
xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES... xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES... xclip-pastefile DESCRIPTION
xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories. xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards. -p preserve path formation xclip-pastefile pastes the files out of the clipboard EXAMPLES
Copying a file to a remote host [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1 [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile file1 [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile file1 [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ cat file1 A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se Copying an entire tree structure [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-copyfile doc [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile doc/ doc/letter-mom-april.txt doc/file1 doc/letter-dad-march.txt Copying files with preserved path information [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile -p /etc/sysconfig/grub tar: Removing leading `/' from member names [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile etc/sysconfig/grub [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ ls etc/sysconfig/grub etc/sysconfig/grub Moving files [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt letter-brother-may.txt [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-cutfile letter-brother-may.txt [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt ls: cannot access letter-brother-may.txt: No such file or directory [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ cd doc [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile letter-brother-may.txt AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Maximilian Gass <mxey@cloudconnected.org> for the Debian project. It may be used for everything else, of course. XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)
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