hi
can i know how to get the file name of any files containing for example "abc" from a number of files in a directory?
i tried "ls -ltrc | grep abc" but no resulted generated.
thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Hello my friends,
I need to write a simple shell bad file :D that search and delete a file it's name 'Microsoft.txt' in the current directory and its subdirectories?
So can you help to guide me how i can write this shell, Just give me the beginning :o thank you. (1 Reply)
I was google searching and found
Perl as a command line utility tool
This almost solves my problem:
find . | xargs perl -p -i.old -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g'
I think this would create a new file for every file in my directory tree. Most of my files will not contain oldstring and I... (1 Reply)
I need to search for a particular string. This string might be present in many files. The directory in which I am present has more than one subdirectories. Hence, the search should check in all the subdirectories and all the corresponding files and give a list of files which have the particular... (5 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I want to search the content of all the files (of a particular type like .txt)
in a directory for a specific string pattern. Can anyone help me?
Thanks (7 Replies)
Hello, I really don't know if this is possible, but I figured the wonderful users of unix.com may be able to provide me with some help/suggestions.
I want to create a (bash) script that would go will accept an input file. That input file contains important information as well as pathnames. For... (4 Replies)
Hello dears,
In my home directory (msc-loader) there are some files like this:
# ls -l
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user dba 1680318 Jan 20 13:32 103386_s.c
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user dba 256743 Jan 20 13:37 103387_o.c
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user dba 1635363 Jan 20 13:39 103387_s.c
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user dba 264735 Jan 20... (3 Replies)
I have ~100 text files in a directory that I am trying to parse and output to a new file. I am looking for the words chr,start,stop,ref,alt in each of the files. Those fields should appear somewhere in those files. The first two fields of each new set of rows is also printed. Since this is on a... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
How to search for a string in all the files irrespective of directory.
If I use grep -i 'hello' *.*
It will search for the string hello in the files of current directory.
But I want to check for the string hello in the files of all the directories.
Thanks (4 Replies)