1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I would like to be able to grep (or some such thing) a search argument and then display the line plus the preceding 3 lines of the file and the following 3 lines of the file. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! :D (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi guys, I have the following grep command in a script to search through a file for a string and return its count, and it works fine for when the string exists: grep "string" file.txt | wc However, sometimes the result will be 0 and I want the script to take this as the result. Right now... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Well I have a 3000 lines result log file that contains all the machine data when it does the testing... It has 3 different section that i am intrsted in 1) starting with "20071126 11:11:11 Machine Header 1" 1000 lines... "End machine header 1" 2) starting with "20071126 12:12:12 Machine... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, My code is like this if swlist -a revision 2>/dev/null | grep ABC 2>/dev/null then echo "Found Above mentioned ABC Version, please remove it first..." fi This is displaying the result to the screen. i want to first suppress that and for that i wrote the below... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, if I grep a file, sometimes I want to see as an eg 2 lines above and below my grep results. how can this be done thanks (3 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hi While trying to do a search on solaris, the grep results seems to be appearing on the same line instead of the new line. Wed Jan 18 14:45:48 weblogic@test:/abcd$ grep qainejb02 * qa_cluster_biz_view_tc_intl_servers_ports_2:qainejb02 7101 qa_cluster_servers_2:qainejb02... (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello. I want to get all modules which are loaded and which name are exactly 2 characters long and not more than 2 characters and begin with "nv" lsmod | (e)grep '^nv???????????? I want to get all modules which are loaded and which name begin with "nv" and are 2 to 7 characters long ... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I was wondering if it was possible to grep a pattern based on the surround text. For example, if i have an input file like this: titleA titleB titlex titleC titleD titlex titleE And I want to grep "title" and save the results only if it is not followed with a "titlex". My output... (14 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I would appreciate your help with this. I have a output file from a command. It is broken based on initial of the users. Exmaple of iitials MN & SS. Under each section there is information pertaining to the user however each section can have different number of lines. MY challenge is to ... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am trying to grep search a pattern and a line before it. cat input >record1 hello1hello2hellonhello3 >record2 helloohello1hello2hello3 When I use, grep with -o option and either of -A/B/C options, I still can't see lines before or after the pattern. But the exact pattern is... (5 Replies)