Does anyone know what the double dashes in the following grep line mean?
grep -c -- "->"
The intent of the line is to have a long listing of a directory piped to it, and for it to count off the symbolic links based on the "->" characters. I'm not sure why the scripter decided to search for... (1 Reply)
Dear all
I have a file with more than one patters to search.Such as pattern.txt. I have to grep these patterns into a data file such as data.txt.how to do this ,i tried
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep -f <pattern_file> <data_file>
Its not working. why or how to search pattern file ? (3 Replies)
Hi,
I've the following code in my program.
grep 'FILE_PREFIX' /cblconfig |grep -v '#' > $fpfx-filename
I'm not sure what second grep does.
Can someone explain this command?
Thanks (1 Reply)
Hello,
I am processing a text file which contains only words with few combination of characters (it is a dictionary file).
example:
havana
have
haven
haven't
havilland
havoc
Is there a way to exclude only 1 to 8 character long words which not include space or special characters : '-`~.. so... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I was wondering, if there is any option with Grep, so that i can have couple of lines appearing before and after the search line within a result ?
Thanks in Advance.
Rgds - Prince. (4 Replies)
This is my command-line code in my script,
passwd=`grep $passwd $userfile | cut -f2 -d: login_users > retrieve`
the
cut -f2 -d: login_users > retrieve
searches and prints the whole column two. what I need is one of the items in the column two only.. what option can I add to my cut... (2 Replies)
In solaris, i m trying to find the files having a particulat extension and then from the list i want to exclude those files which is present in a file.
But it seems the -f and -v option are not working
find $source -type f -name $extn | /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -F -v -f $exclude | while read... (7 Replies)
grep -C option is not availbale and i am using korn shell.
Even -C option in man grep is not showing..
Input file : test.txt
111
333
444
555
aaa
bbbb
Command :
grep -C1 555 test.txt
Required output:
444
555 (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: NareshN
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWgawk |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Volatile |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)