But how can $count be 2 then? Isn't it always 1?
And, if you put the $COL1 in quotes, you can again work with the original space-separated files, and it boils down to
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I want to search a heap of files but using an either OR or AND condition for two or more strings. How can I do this?
i.e. file1 has the following
file testfile primary
and file2 has this ...
file testfile2 secondary
If I use this ...
find . -type f -exec grep "testfile" {}... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Please help me in the following dbt
i want to know the different files in the current and the sub directory which have some search key in that . for example
i want to know all filenames followed by the word 'unix' in all files.
the file name and the matching word have... (1 Reply)
I have some txt files. I have to create another text file which contains the portion starting from the format "Date Sex Address" to the end of the file. While using grep -n on Date it also gives me the previous line containg Date. and also Date may be DATE in some files.
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Hi frnds
i want to desplay file names that should be word1 and word2
ex :
i have 10 *.log files
5 files having word1 and word2
5 files having only word1,
i have used below command
egrep -l 'word1|word2' *.log
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I have a file that has multiple lines separated by an asterisk as a delimiter:
FILE.txt
A*123*BCD*456*TOM
A*789*EFG*947*CHRIS
A*840*BCD*456*TOM
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Hi,
Please suggest a way to print number of words in the end of each line.
<input file>
red aunt house
blue sky
bat and ball game
<output file>
red aunt house 3
blue sky 2
bat and ball game 4
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I have a text file ( basically a log file) and i have 2 words (alpha, beta),
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... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Need your help for this scripting issue I have. I am not really good at this, so seeking your help.
I have a file looking similar to this:
Hello, i am human and name=ABCD.
How are you?
Hello, i am human and name=PQRS.
I am good.
Hello, i am human and name=ABCD.
Good bye.
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Hi All
I have to search servers name say like 1000+ "unique names" line by line in child.txt files in another file that is a master file where all server present say "master.txt",if child.txt's server name matches with master files then it print yes else no with server name. (4 Replies)
I'm in need of some kind of script that will search for a string in each logfile in a directory but we don't want to use GREP. GREP seems to use up to much of our memory causing the server to use up a lot of swap space. Our log files are bigger than 500M on a daily basis. We lately started... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
bm
BM(PUBLIC) BM(PUBLIC)
NAME
bm - search a file for a string
SYNOPSIS
/usr/public/bm [ option ] ... [ strings ] [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Bm searches the input files (standard input default) for lines matching a string. Normally, each line found is copied to the standard out-
put. It is blindingly fast. Bm strings are fixed sequences of characters: there are no wildcards, repetitions, or other features of regu-
lar expressions. Bm is also case sensitive. The following options are recognized.
-x (Exact) only lines matched in their entirety are printed
-l The names of files with matching lines are listed (once) separated by newlines.
-c Only a count of the number of matches is printed
-e string
The string is the next argument after the -e flag. This allows strings beginning with '-'.
-h No filenames are printed, even if multiple files are searched.
-n Each line is preceded by the number of characters from the beginning of the file to the match.
-s Silent mode. Nothing is printed (except error messages). This is useful for checking the error status.
-f file
The string list is taken from the file.
Unless the -h option is specified the file name is shown if there is more than one input file. Care should be taken when using the charac-
ters $ * [ ^ | ( ) and in the strings (listed on the command line) as they are also meaningful to the Shell. It is safest to enclose the
entire expression argument in single quotes ' '.
Bm searches for lines that contain one of the (newline-separated) strings, using the Boyer-Moore algorithm. It is far superior in terms of
speed to the grep (egrep, fgrep) family of pattern matchers for fixed-pattern searching, and its speed increases with pattern length.
SEE ALSO grep(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 1 if none, 2 for syntax errors or inaccessible files.
AUTHOR
Peter Bain (pdbain@wateng), with modifications suggested by John Gilmore
BUGS
Only 100 patterns are allowed.
Patterns may not contain newlines.
If a line (delimited by newlines, and the beginning and end of the file) is longer than 8000 charcters (e.g. in a core dump), it will not
be completely printed.
If multiple patterns are specified, the order of the ouput lines is not necessarily the same as the order of the input lines.
A line will be printed once for each different string on that line.
The algorithm cannot count lines.
The -n and -c work differently from fgrep.
The -v, -i, and -b are not available.
4th Berkeley Distribution 8 July 1985 BM(PUBLIC)