Never mind, I did more research, and now am using grep -v './temp/', dumping it into a new text file, then using mv -f to make that the original file. Thanks for reading!
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Hi folks, I haven't done any scripting in years, and now I have a problem. Our backup tapes are filling up, and I'd like to remove an entire directory from the backup. The script we use creates a file for the backup (/tmp/backuplist), and I'd like to use grep to help me remove anything in the "/temp" directory. I've attached the script if you'd like an example.
If someone could tell me the syntax I'd need to do to remove this from my backup, I'd greatly appreciate it - thank you!
I have seen this used several times but not really sure of what it actually does. I am confused with the second grep as the argument to the first.
some commands | grep -v grep | some other commands
Can anyone provide an explanation?
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Hello. I'm a complete newbie to C programming. I have a C program that wasn't written by me where I need to write some wrappers around it to automate and make it easier for a client to use. The problem is that the program accepts standard input to control the program... I'm hoping to find a simple... (6 Replies)
How come grep testfile1 won't find anything in testfile1 (even though the characters sd are there in great quantity), but grep '' testfile1 will find plenty?
Do the single quotes prevent the shell from interpreting the testfile1 is interpreted as: grep *test whether or not characters sd exist*... (5 Replies)
I tried searching for answers but didn't find any.
When I grep a file results read
4.2.2.2
4.4.4.2
4.5.6.7
But I just want to select each result individually. For Example I want to be able to say
variable1="first grep result"
variable2="second grep result"
variable3="third grep... (8 Replies)
This should be so easy...
I want to find all the apps in /Applications that start with the lower case i (e.g. iTunes.app, iSync.app, iCal.app) They should all have the .app extension. I've tried:
ls /Applications |grep -o i*.app
ls /Applications/i*.app
Anyhow, I just want to see what apps... (2 Replies)
I hope someone can help me.
I have a folder e.g. /opt/application
Under that are many sub folders e.g.
Folder1
Folder2
Folder3
Folder4
Folder5
Folder6
etc
In some of these fodlers (not all of them) is a file called errors.log
I need to run a grep that will start at... (3 Replies)
Cheers!
In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not?
To be more precise I am interested in error and critical level messages. At default these errors are not specified in syslog.conf, and I need to... (6 Replies)
Hello. I'm a noob, but have managed to get to the point of Solaris storage server running 4 X 3Tb in a RAIDZ pool. My current system is sharing via SMB a few different ZFS devices (puddle/TV, puddle/Movies, puddle/Music, etc).
My main server is going to be OSX, Mountain Lion. What I have set... (4 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Use the less command to view the words file.
To see the results of a grep that returns many rows, pipe the... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
zgrep
ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)ZGREP(1)