Hi,
I have a directory with a couple of thousand logs in it. The log files are created every 5 minutes. I want to search these logs grep for a specific sting and more importantly print the name of the files where that sting was found.
e.g.
all logs begin om20020927
what I have been... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm rather new to Unix and I'm trying to write a simple script to search through a dictionary for words based on the letters a user would pass as arguments to the script.
Now I have the searching part done. However, the one thig that still eludes me is that I want to only keep the... (4 Replies)
Dear friends,
I have one more query,
incase a file contains multiple tags of same name, then how to get the required string between the tags, in which the string begins with "O/M"
i.e., file1.txt contains following text(please note that all the following tags are in single line)... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Need to extract a string from one file and search the same in other files.
Ex:
I have file1 of hundred lines with no delimiters not even space.
I have 3 more files.
I should get 1 to 10 characters say substring from each line of file1 and search that string in rest of the files and get... (1 Reply)
Hi ...
I have a string variable
STR = "This is a test message"
I have a file abc.txt that I am searching for the occurence of the string STR ...
I am using the command in a script
cat abc.txt | grep $STR
It identifies each space as a seperator and prints word by word.
How to... (2 Replies)
I need to search for a specific string in a file and if this string exist I need to replace it with something else. I am not sure how I could do this, using an if statement. (2 Replies)
Hi Guys...
I want to search for each file that contains a particular string.
e.g find . -print | xargs grep -i string_name
Now my issue is the files that I search in are gzipped.
Will I be able to find the string, using the above commands, even if the files are gzipped?
Please... (2 Replies)
hello, i'm a novice on bsh scripting so thanks for any help here
basically i have a shell var $x that looks like this
> echo $x
nabc1234:!:73394:17155:Gary Mason:/home/garym:/bin/ksh
and i'm trying to keep the first 8 characters and the text from the 4th : to the 5th :
i've been trying... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I have some data in the form of
adc|nvhs|nahssn|njadnk|nkfds
in the above data i need to write a script so thet it will append "|||" to the third occurnace in the string ..... the outout should look like
adc|nvhs|nahssn||||njadnk|nkfds
Thanks,
Firestar. (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
So im trying to search for the most recent occurance of a string in the most recently updated .log file in a certain directory. The string i am searching for is a value, now if this value is greater than 800 i would like an email sent out with some text (blah blah blah).
This is what... (7 Replies)