I must admit, I like jim mcnamara's neat response. It made me wonder about the string often all of the kinds of Norway as an example where the string might exist embedded in another word. Is this a problem to you?
By adding the -w flag, you can adjust the output:-
Of course, this may or may not be useful, but I thought I should add it into the mix.
When I type a command at the command line it supplies one result and the exact same command in a script
egrep '^01|^02|^03|^04' file > fileout
count = 29353
same count in the script yields a count of 23492
is there any reason this could be happening. (1 Reply)
On our one HP-UX 11i box, we have some very long paths defined. When I want to check on our user processes running, the resulting paths are chopped off. /xyz/abc/123/......./server/b is really a process running in the ..../server/bin directory. Is this a terminal problem or buffer length... (1 Reply)
hi!
how do i make ps results to only shows what's owned by users current job/background process only
currently when users issuing ps:
I just wanted the result when the user is issuing ps aux is same as when they're doing ps x like this:
(which shows result on user's current background... (13 Replies)
I want to display "no results found" if a grep search of a name that the user inputs is not found anywhere in a certain file,
Right now I have this, but doesn't seem to work. Im not sure what to change.
read name
results=grep -c $name file
if ;
then echo "No results found."
exit... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a log file without date/time, and I want that everytime tail|grep find something it displays the date/time and the line. I have tried something like this command but without any luck to display the date/time:
tail -F catalina.out | sed "s/^/`date `/" | egrep ... (6 Replies)
I'm using the command grep -l XYZ to get a list of files containing the string XYZ. Then I using the comand ls -l ABC to get the create date timestamp of the each file. I've tried combining the comands using the pipe command, grep -l XYZ | ls -l, but its not working. What am I doing wrong? (3 Replies)
Can I modify the grep command to show only a process name?
Currently I run ps -efa | grep chk_web to get the following:
mousr 3395 1 0 09:36:06 pts/10 0:00 sh /var/opt/scripts/chk_web.sh
Can this be changed in any way to get only:
/var/opt/scripts/chk_web.sh or chk_web.sh.
I... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am currently reading a tar file and searching for a particular word using grep e.g. Plane. At the moment, if a sentence is found with the word "Plane" the sentence itself is piped to another file.
Here is the code i am using;
for jar in 'cat jar_file.tar'; do
tar -tvf... (3 Replies)
Hello Guys,
I have created function which is as follow:
tail -f filename |grep "Key word"
output from this command
19-11-2011 21:09:15,234 - INFO Numbement - error number:result = :11
19-11-2011 21:09:15,286 - INFO Numbement - error number:result = :11
19-11-2011 21:09:15,523 - INFO... (5 Replies)
Hi,
i have a file hello.log which as several line that look like the below
2015-12-07 09:46:56 0:339 120.111.12.12 POST /helloWorld
2015-12-07 09:46:57 0:439 122.111.12.12 POST /helloWorld
....
when i grep expecting to see results like the below.
... (6 Replies)