Script to search every file in a directory and print last few lines
Hi everyone,
I need to write a script to search a directory, output the name of a file to an ouput file and print the last few lines of the files to the output file such that I would have something like this:
Any ideas?
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In this case, it would have helped tremendously as it would show if you're talking of one single output file or three files...
Last edited by RudiC; 11-09-2016 at 05:58 PM..
Reason: Added CODE tags assuming one single output file.
hello
have a file1
H87I
Y788O
T347U
J23U
and
file2 J23U U887Y I99U T556U
file3 I99O J99T F557J
file4 N99I T666U R55Y
file5 H87I T347U
file6 H77U R556Y E44T
file7 Y788O K98U H8I
May be using script we can use file1 to search for all the files
and have the output
H87I file5... (3 Replies)
hi,
I have a file say x.txt containing
xxx
123
bla
bla
...
you
xxx
dfk
dbf
...
me
xxx
...
...
keeps on..
i need to search for pattern in the line starting xxx in the file. If pattern matched, I need to fetch all the lines till i find next xxx. (17 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to ksh scripting and I have a problem.
I have a file in which I have to search for a particular pattern say 'a' then from that line I need to search for another pattern say 'b' in the previous lines and thne print the file from pattern 'b' till the end of file.
For eg:
... (2 Replies)
I have a command which prints #lines after and before the search string in the huge file
nawk 'c-->0;$0~s{if(b)for(c=b+1;c>1;c--)print r;print;c=a}b{r=$0}' b=0 a=10 s="STRING1" FILE
The file is 5 gig big.
It works great and prints 10 lines after the lines which contains search string in... (8 Replies)
Good Evening Folks -
I have a need to search a specific directory and ALL sub-directories for the following string:
Data Load UpdatedIf this string is found, I need to print content from the line directory above it between symbols, as well as the file name where it is found.
Here is a... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I hope somebody would be able to help me.
I would need to search a string coming from a file, example file.txt:
dog
cat
goat
horse
fish
For every string, I would need to know if there are any files inside a directory(recursively) that contains the string regardless of case.... (9 Replies)
I have a directory of files, I can show the number of lines in each file and order them from lowest to highest with:
wc -l *|sort
15263 Image.txt
16401 reference.txt
40459 richtexteditor.txt
How can I also print the number of unique lines in each file?
15263 1401 Image.txt
16401... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: spacegoose
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines (with newlines excluded) that match the pattern, a regular expression as
defined in regexp(6). Normally, each line matching the pattern is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output.
The options are
-c Print only a count of matching lines.
-h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
-i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form.
-l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
-L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
-n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
-s Produce no output, but return status.
-v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
argument.)
Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
single quotes '...'.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/grep.c
SEE ALSO ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(6)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.
GREP(1)