"*.*" is a DOS thing. Why not search for the files you want anyway instead of "all files". "-*#*" would be any name starting with - and including # in it.
Cramming everything into backticks won't do what you want. It'll just give you a big list but not do anything to the files. It'll also include directories, not just files. I don't know why you used xargs to grep.
It'd be nice to know what your shell is. Assuming you have bash or ksh.
hi guys,
Suppose you have 100 files in a folder and you want to replace all occurances of a word say "ABCD" in those files with "DCBA", how would you do
it ???
jatin (13 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to UNIX. I will be thankful if some one helps me.
I have to write a shell script for one of the requirement.
I have files created from Jan 2006 to March 2008.
My requirement is to write a script in such a way that
1) To find and copy(not Moving) the files created in the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory has DIR1 and the D1 directory has 200+ files.
I want change the string from "Bangalore" to "Bangaluru" in all files in the D1 directory.
Thanks (2 Replies)
I'm looking to write a ksh code with will be alble to find a word like 'toto' in all files going from my current directory.
eg.
/doc ----------->have: text.c which "toto"
/doc/usr-------->have: build.pc, help.java which "toto"
/doc/usr/cach -->have: test.sh which "toto"
/doc/build... (4 Replies)
I used the following script
cd pathname
for y in `ls *`;
do sed "s/ABCD/DCBA/g" $y > temp; mv temp $y;
done
and it worked fine for finding and replacing strings with names etc. in all files of the given path.
I'm trying to replace a string which consists of path (location of file)
... (11 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm looking to find and replace a string in all HTML files within a certain directory, including subdirectories. Normally, I would play with this a little to get it to work, but I can't mess this up, so I'm going to ask here.
Basically, I want to find "<title>" in all *.htm* files... (11 Replies)
Hi all
This is my first post. Please bear with me with all my mistakes. I started learning shell since couple of days now and this might be quite basic for all, i want to search for files in a directory containing specific string and replace it with new string. The code i wrote is quite bulky... (2 Replies)
Hi,
i need help on shell scripting.
Main intention of the script is
step 1: ssh to remote server
Step 2: cd /tmp in remote server
Step 3: in tmp i want to grep only files and directories which are in GB sizes
All the servers list file is - tmpsrv.txt
vi tmpsrv.txt
... (17 Replies)
Hi,
The requirement is below:
There are 5 files in a unix directory and i need to pick up latest file from the directory that i can do like this ls -lrt | tail -1 and this file can be processed. now the actual requirement is some times what will happen the second third...on files i.e(ls -lrt... (4 Replies)
I need help to write shell script to copy files from one server to another server.
Source Directory UAE(inside i have another folder Misc with files inside UAE folder).I have to copy this to another server UAE folder( Files should be copied to UAE folder and Misc files should be copied in target... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: naresh2389
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cg
CG(1)CG(1)NAME
cg - Recursively grep for a pattern and store it.
SYNOPSIS
cg [ -l ] | [ [ -i ] pattern [ files ] ]
DESCRIPTION
cg does a search though text files (usually source code) recursively for a pattern, storing matches and displaying the output in a human-
readable fashion. It is intended to give some of the functionaly of AT&T's cscope(1) tool, with the advantages of simplicity and not being
language-specific. The script will colorize output if configured as such.
It is typically run with a Perl regular expression to search for. The search can be made case insensitive by using the -i option. A list
of files may also be specified with an additional argument after the pattern. Put the files pattern in quotes to make it be matched by
Perl rather than by the shell. Running the script with no arguments will recall the results of the previous search. After the search,
entries found can be edited using the vg(1) script. The -l option shows the last log made.
SOME EXAMPLES
cg - alone recalls the previous search results.
cg -i pattern - search the default list of files for all files matching the pattern (and case-insensitively).
cg pattern '*.c' - search recursively for pattern in all *.c files. This automatically converts '*' to '.*' and '.' to '.' for you and
does a Perl pattern match on all files in the tree.
cg pattern *.c - search through the shell-expanded list of *.c files, so not done recursively (in other words, only the files your shell
pass to the script as arguments).
cg -l - show the last log made.
COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS-i Do a case-insensitive search.
-l Show the last log made.
-p Toggle the default pager option. cg has a bulit-in pager function, which can be enabled or disabled by default (in .cgvgrc). If the
default is enabled, this option disables the pager; if the default is disabled, this option enables it.
-P Force the built-in pager to be disabled.
FILES
${HOME}/.cglast
Log file of the last search.
${HOME}/.cgvgrc
Per-user configuration file (if the defaults are not desireable).
${HOME}/.cgvg/*
Log files in $HOSTNAME.shell_pid form with the log of the last search.
SEE ALSO vg(1), perl(1), find(1), grep(1), cscope(1)AUTHOR
cg was written by Joshua Uziel <uzi@uzix.org>.
13 Mar 2002 CG(1)