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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need help understanding script command Post 302275965 by Ikon on Monday 12th of January 2009 05:27:21 PM
Old 01-12-2009
This executes ls -l for each file "*" that it finds. So it give the file details filename, file size, etc...
Code:
-exec ls -l {} \;

this list the lines that DO NOT have " 200" in them. See example below.
Code:
-v " 200"

Code:
# cat test.log
John Smith
Bill Smith
Jack Brown
James Brown
Jill Smith
# cat test.log | grep Smith
John Smith
Bill Smith
Jill Smith
# cat test.log | grep -v "Smith"
Jack Brown
James Brown

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gmtinfo

GMTINFO(1gmt)						       Generic Mapping Tools						     GMTINFO(1gmt)

NAME

       gmtinfo - Get information about individual cruises

SYNOPSIS

       gmtinfo leg-ids

DESCRIPTION

       gmtinfo	reports  the minimum/maximum coordinates, year of the cruise, leg id, number of records, the number of gravity, magnetics, and ba-
       thymetry points found, and the start/stop dates for the leg.  All the information is written to standard output on one line so that  it	is
       easy to use awk to add up numbers etc.

       leg-ids
	      Can be one or more gmtleg-names, like c2610.  Use `cat list_of_legs` to pass all the legnames in the file list_of_legs.

EXAMPLES

       To obtain information about cruises c2603 and v2819, run

       gmtinfo	c2603 v2819 > info_file

SEE ALSO

       GMT(1)

REFERENCES

       Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 2011, The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) version 4.5.7 Technical Reference & Cookbook, SOEST/NOAA.
       Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1998, New, Improved Version of Generic Mapping Tools Released, EOS Trans., AGU, 79(47), p. 579.
       Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995, New Version of the Generic Mapping Tools Released, EOS Trans., AGU, 76(33), p. 329.
       Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995, New Version of the Generic Mapping Tools Released, http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/95154e.html, Copyright
       1995 by the American Geophysical Union.
       Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1991, Free Software Helps Map and Display Data, EOS Trans., AGU, 72(41), p. 441.

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