can anybody let me know how can i search for "-n" in a text file; or if my file name is "-n" (which is legal in Unix) how do i deal with that?
thanks (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a folder with many files. I need to get all the filenames with the value "<f id=audio-time>*:*:*</f>" word.
* may be any integer.
I used find . -type f -exec grep -H '<f id=audio-time>.:.</f>' {} \;
command to get.
but i am not able to find the correct values.
Any... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have problem with searching hundreds of CSV files, the problem is that search is lasting too long (over 5min).
Csv files are "," delimited, and have 30 fields each line, but I always grep same 4 fields - so is there a way to grep just those 4 fields to speed-up search.
Example:... (11 Replies)
Hi
Pretty sure this is very simple hence im banging my head o the wall as to why i cant get this to work:
Im greping against many files where there will be the following string:
Date: Thu, Aug 23 2001 09:27 PM
(of course values such as date ,time and PM/AM will vary.)
Im trying to grep... (1 Reply)
Hi
I am facing the below problem.
I have set of lines in which i have to search for only the line which matches with the pattren "/" only.
input:-
/*+ some text */
/*+ some text */
/* Remove rows from a table of survey results. */
/* Add a survey respondent's name and answers. */
/*... (7 Replies)
hi,
i got files delimited by |^ character. eg.
apple|^ball|^cat|^dog|^egg
i need to find if the above file contains | (pipe ) character inside the data.eg.
apple|^ball|^cat|^d|og|^egg.
above file contains | character in the dog data. how can i search that. (4 Replies)
I have this fileA
TEST FILE ABC
this file contains ABC;
TEST FILE DGHT this file contains DGHT;
TEST FILE 123
this file contains ABC,
this file contains DEF,
this file contains XYZ,
this file contains KLM
;
I want to have a fileZ that has only (begin search pattern for will be... (2 Replies)
Lets say I have a massive directory which is filled with other directories all filled with different c++ scripts and I want a listing of all the scripts that contain the string: "this string". Is there a way to use a grep search for that? I tried:
grep -lr "this string" *
but I do not... (3 Replies)
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wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
DESCRIPTION
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -,
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print the length of the longest line
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print the word counts
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