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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am working on a script to search for text.
read -p "Enter text to search for : " n1
grep $n1 /home/andy/bin/*.sh
It works, but if I backspace, it does this.
Enter text to search for : sset Master^
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My mistake is I used the left arrow key... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a directory that is in the below order (the --- is not part of the directory tree, only there to help illustrate:
DATE --- main level
Folder1 --- level under DATE
plugin_out --- level under Folder1
variantCaller_out.40 --- level under plugin_out
001,002,003 --- level under... (3 Replies)
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3. Linux
I've been using this to search an entire directory recursively for a specific phrase in my code (html, css, php, javascript, etc.):
find dir_name -type f -exec grep -l "phrase" {} \;
The problem is that it searches ALL files in the directory 'dir_name', even binary ones such as large JPEG... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Collider
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am very new to Linux and am trying to find a way for following problem.
I have a number of files in a folder as Export000.dat, Export001.dat ..and so on.
Each file has a string field 'Absolute velocity'. I want it to be replaced by 'Pixel shift' in all the files. I tried something like... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: chirag.joshi
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I made this code to search in directory for file and size
How can I remodel it to seach in the sub direcotry as well
Thanks
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter: "
read var
if
then
echo "Directory exists: ${var}"
size=`du -hs "${var}"`
echo The size of the current folder is... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: lio123
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I was exploring find command and came across -prune option which would exclude search in a mention subdirectory.
My quesry is to search all files more that 100 MB size but exclude search in a subdirectory.
I am using below command,but somehow it is not working.
Can anybody help me... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: usha rao
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I need UNIX command that would give me all files without the string "4R" anywhere in the file. I have about a hundred files in my directory, and I need to list all files wihtout the string "4R" anywhere. Can anyone help me please? Thank you.l (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: risk_sly
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have many scripts in directories and sub-directories that I would like to search for a specific string. How would I do that? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bggibson
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
My company Unix guru enabled fortune in my .login (dot login?) file. When i asked him how he did it he told me to search my dot files for "suspicious" text.
He wants me to learn more about all of the dot files. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: noobie_doo
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