1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello. I have a dir of 1500+ dir. In these dirs is a file host, with a tag <x_tag>. I need to : 1. grep for all dir that contain this host file that contain <x_tag> 2. print a list of these host files containing <x_tag> is this better to egrep this? (5 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am having a heck of a time trying to write a script that will grep for multiple strings in a single file. I am really at my wits end here and I am hoping to get some feedback here. Basic information: OS: Solaris 9 Shell: KSH Oracle Database server I was trying to grep through a file... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there anyway you can grep using multiple wildcards? When I run the below line the results return fine; grep 12345 /usr/local/production/soccermatchplus/distributor/clients/*/out/fixtures.xml | awk -F/ '{print $8}' However ideally, I need it to grep for; grep 12345... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have the following requirement. i have the following line from a log file one : two : Three : four : five : six : seven : eight :nine :ten Now can you pls help what i should do to get only the following output from the above line two : five : six : seven : Eight appreciate your... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

ok, apparently this is a very difficult question to answer based on my searches on google that came up fruitless. what i want to do is grep through a file for words that match a specified string. but the thing is, i keep getting all words in the file that have the string in them. say for... (27 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Trying to find a way to grep for two names on a line. Both names must appear on the same line so '|' / OR is out. So far, I'm just messing around and I've got find . -name "*" | xargs grep "Smith" Let me explain. I'm at a top level and need to know all the names of the files that... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I use sed comnand to remove occurance of one workd from a line. However I need to removed occurance of dufferent words in ne line. Original-1 Hi this is the END of my begining Comand sed s/"END"/"start"/g Output-1 Hi this is the start of my beginig But I have more... (9 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have 3-column tab separated data that looks like the following: act of+n-a-large+vn-tell-v 0.067427 act_com of+n+n-a-large-manufacturer-n 0.129922 act-act_com-com in+n-j+vn-pass-aux-restate-v 0.364499666667 com nmod+n-j+ns-invader-n 0.527521 act_com-com obj+n-a-j+vd-contribute-v 0.091413... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello I have an output that has a string between quotes and another between square brackets on the same line. I need to extract these 2 strings Example line Device "nrst3a" attributes=(0x4) RAW SERIAL_NUMBER=SNL2 Output should look like nrst3a VD073AV1443BVW00083 I was trying with sed... (3 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello Everyone , Iam a newbie to shell programming and iam reaching out if anyone can help in this :- I have two files 1) Insert.txt 2) partition_list.txt insert.txt looks like this :- insert into emp1 partition (partition_name) (a1, b2, c4, s6, d8) select a1, b2, c4, (2 Replies)