1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I have a directory that holds all of my matlab codes. I am trying to run a searh on all of the matlab files that have the word "while" written inside the sytax of the code. Looking for all of the times that I did a while loop. Can someone help me do this? Thanks in advance. ... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi all i want to search some word in file but i want that it will search in all the files that i have in all the directories i do'nt know the name of the file i know that grep command want some specified file in which command shell i used thanks (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everyone! I use a script to query for installed packages with yum (I use RHEL 4 with yum installed) and the output is redirected to a file. My script scan this file to find a package and the version of it. The script works fine until I search for a package name with special characters.... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I have a log file which is more than 1GB, i need to take count from the log file for two strings. i am using the below command but it take a long time to excetue, i need to tune this. Please help me cat /logs/gcbs/gcbsTrace.log | grep -i "ViewStatementBusinessLogic" | grep -c -i... (8 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to search in the current directory all the files that contain one word for example "hello" i want to achieve it with the grep command but not with the grep * (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am new to Unix and this is my first post on this forum. I am trying to convert a file into an xml. In my input I want to search for any line that starts with a 'F' and make it a tag in the xml. See below for the input and output. Input : <Payment> <REFERENCE>78</REFERENCE> F123 : ... (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a issue in pulling some heavy records , I have my input file has 10,000 records which i need to compare with daily appended log files from (sep 1st 2009 to till date) . I tried to use grep fgrep and even sed , but the as time is factor for me , i cannot wait for 5 days to get the... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a file that has the words I want to find in other files (but lets say I just want to find my words in a single file). Those words are IDs, so if my word is ZZZ4, outputs like aaZZZ4, ZZZ4bb, aaZZZ4bb, ZZ4, ZZZ, ZyZ4, ZZZ4.8 (or anything like that) WON'T BE USEFUL. I need the whole word... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i have a directory structure which contains few files each. each file in turn has some functions. i'm searching for a word, say 'pen' in all the files present in all the directories. :wall: consider a file file1.c in Dir1. out of the 3 funcs present in this file, func1(pennum) and... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need a script to start searching a word from the particular record on the result of first occurence i need to change the value in that record. I have a input file like this <properties> <add key="DeliveryWithinDay" value="False" /> <add key="ABC" value="23:00:00 PM" /> <add... (5 Replies)