hi
can i know how to get the file name of any files containing for example "abc" from a number of files in a directory?
i tried "ls -ltrc | grep abc" but no resulted generated.
thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Lets say I have 3 files a.txt and b.txt and c.txt.
a.txt has the following text
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apple is good for health
b.txt has the following text
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apple is pomme in french
c.txt has the following text
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orange has citric acid... (1 Reply)
Hi, i am new to unix shell scripting and i need a script which would search for a particular word in all the files present in a directory. The output should have the word and file path name. For example: "word" "path name".
Thanks for the reply in adv,:) (3 Replies)
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I want to find for a particular word which is existing in different files and folders under the parent directory. What command can I use to retrieve all the file names which is having the word. (1 Reply)
Hi,
Please let me know if there is a unix command or any shell script which can do a search for a text in ms-word files, pdf'd and in excel files. Please let me know if there is a solution for this challenge.
Thanks,
Kesava. (4 Replies)
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)
I have a file input.txt which have loads of weird characters, html tags and useful materials. I want to display 35 characters after the word description excluding weird characters like $$#$#@$#@***$# and without html tags in the new file output.txt. Help me. Thanx in advance.
My final goal is to... (11 Replies)
I have a file input.txt which have loads of weird characters, html tags and useful materials. I want to display 35 characters after the word "description" excluding weird characters like $&lmp and without html tags in the new file output.txt. Help me. Thanx in advance. I have attached the input... (4 Replies)
in the below data i need to search for the word typeMismatch and then traverse back to find the filename of that particular mismatch. Like this we have to get all the file names which has error in them. How can i acheive this.
I tried use sed or awk but not able to achevie the same.
Sample... (2 Replies)
I have a multicolumn text file with header in the first row like this
The headers are stored in an array called . which contains I want to search for each elements of this array from that multicolumn text file. And I am using this awk approach
for ii in ${hdr}
do
gawk -vcol="$ii" -F... (1 Reply)