1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have a number of simulation log files and I want to get a total count of the "PASSED" expression in them. If I use grep -c <files>, grep would give a tally for each file. I just want one number, the total count. How do I do that? (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, How do I grep from multiple, specific file names. For example I have a directory that has numerous files named bsm0a.alarm_output.xxxxxx (the x's will be the date). I need to be able to grep any string that contains the acronym ACN or the word packets, but I will only need them... (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I need to grep from multiple files that begin with the same text. For example, I have files named alert_audit324, alert_audit325, alert_audit326, etc. Is there a way I can use a wildcard and grep from any file that begins with alert_audit? Thanks. (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I m trying to have script to grep a pattern in all files under a directory. I use Sun Solaris, the below want doesnt do exactly what I want. find /home/xxx/ tagHeu | while read FILE; do grep text $FILE && echo 1 grep text $FILE || echo 0 done I also tried running: find... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I will use below command for grep single string ("osuser" is search string) ex: find . -type f | xarg grep -il osuser but i have one more string "v$session" here i want to grep in which file these two strings are present. any help is appreciated, Thanks in advance. Gagan (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I have been struggling to get grep work to my requirements. Basically I have to filter out patterns spread across multiple lines over hundreds of .gz files in a folder. And the output needs to be piped to a file. Here is the example: folder name: logs files in this folder:... (4 Replies)

7. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Hi I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I ran out of caffeine/talent before getting the answer in a long winded alternate way (don't ask ;) ) The task I was trying to do was scan a directory of files and show only files that contained 3 values: I940 5433309 2181 I tried many variations... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, every one! I have a file with multiple strings. file1 ATQRGNE ASQGVKFTE ASSQYRDRGGLET SPEQGARSDE ASSRDFTDT ASSYSGGYE ASSYTRLWNTGE ASQGHNTD PSLGGGNQPQH SLDRDSYNEQF I want to grep each string in hundreds of files in the same directory, further, I want to find out the string... (7 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have 40 files with varying number of columns They however do have identical column names for the overlapping columns I would like to grep some info from these specific colums e.g file1 id beta se direction N 2 .5 .01 + 1000 5 -.6 .02 - 2000 file2 id ... (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I want to use egrep on multiple files and the results should be output to multiple files. I am using the below code in my shell script(working in Ksh shell). However with this code I am not attaining the desired results. #!/bin/ksh ( a="/path/file1" b="path/file2" for file in... (4 Replies)