The above is a possibility. However you'll only get the occurences where there are exactly the number of requested lines. If the requested string would be placed at the end of the file you would not see it.
I should do the trick with a little script
I added code tags for readability -- Perderabo
Last edited by Perderabo; 04-22-2003 at 11:17 AM..
Hello.
I have a dir of 1500+ dir. In these dirs is a file host, with a tag <x_tag>.
I need to :
1. grep for all dir that contain this host file that contain <x_tag>
2. print a list of these host files containing <x_tag>
is this better to egrep this? (5 Replies)
Using shell scripts, I use grep to find the word “error” in a log file:
grep error this.log.
How can I print or get the line 3 lines below the line that word “error” is located?
Thanks in advance for your response. (9 Replies)
I found another problem with my disk-adding script today. When looking for disks, I use grep.
When I grep for the following disk sizes:
5242880
I also pick up these as well:
524288000
How do I specifically pick out one or the other, using grep, without resorting to the -v option?
... (9 Replies)
Hi All,
I was recently helped out 'big time' with my last post on changing multiple file formats (thx, scott1256ca and bakunin)!
My new question is about selecting and displaying columns in a file using (possibly) grep. Several of my data files are spreadsheet format (columns separated by... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a log file and I want to parse the logfile with a script.A sample text is shown below:
I would grep on "return code " on this file. Any idea how the lines above and below the grep patterns could also be extracted.
Thanks!
nua7
The runLoggingInstall return code is 0... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have two files
File 1
alias HOME =..
alias DATA = ${DATA}/runtime1/test
alias SQL = ${DATA}/find1dir/test
alias SQL1 = ${HOME}/sql/orcl
alias SQL2 =... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Need your help here. I have a file with thousand of lines, as shown in example below
KDKJAA 98324
OIDSAJ 324
KJAJAK 100
KJKAJK 89
JOIJOI 21
JDKDJL 12
UOIUOD 10
UDUYDS 8
UIUHKK 6
I would like to grep using... (5 Replies)
I have a script to sort a list of arbitrary hosts and determine if they are supported by grepping them into a master supported list. I cut all the suffixes of the hosts in the arbitrary list, leaving the "short" hostname if you will, then grep -w them into the master list. For example:
... (1 Reply)
Dear Experts,
Need your help.
Typically we use "grep" to search and display a pattern in a txt file.
However, here what we want is, we want to grep a line which contains 4 words any where in a line.
For example.
File has 10,000,000 lines in it out of which there is a particular line which... (1 Reply)
Hey Friends,
Need your help again.
I have input.temp file as follows
$cat input.temp
Lakme|Beauty Products|Lipstick
L'Oreal|Hair Care|Conditioner
Lakme|Beauty Products|Lip gloss
L'Oreal|Hair Care|Mild Shampoo
Gala|Beauty Products|Mehndi Cones
Lakme|Beauty Products|Eye Shadow... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: anushree.a
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)