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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to understand what the grep command in ubuntu is trying to do here.
The contents of my test file is given below
harsha@harsha-H67MA-USB3-B3:~/Documents$ cat data
abcd
efghi
jklmno
pqr
stuv
wxyz
When I grep for 3 dots (...) without the parenthesis as follows I would expect the... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Need Help For GREP
I have a file say g1.txt and content of file is below
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" /v NoDrives /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f ,
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a file similar to the following
filler filler filler
car 6 mazda
filler filler filler filler
car civic honda
car rav 4 toyota
filler filler
If i do a "grep -i car file.txt" the output would be
car 6 mazda
car civic honda
car rav 4 toyota
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I'm trying to gather data directly following a keyword in a file but I have no guarantee where it will appear in said file so I can't use cut or anything else that assumes it will be located at a certain position. If anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful. Here is an example of the... (7 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi folks
I am issuing the following command:
grep "" *
Looking for the characters \/:*?"<>|#+%& within all files in a directory, but the command fails being unhappy with pipe:
ksh: 0403-057 Syntax error: `|' is not expected.
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Hi
I am a little stuck using grep. I want to be able to find from a file all lines which have the sequence of characters t, followed by any character, followed by the characters ing.
I have tried looking at the man pages for help, but did not understand it correctly (as it is not the most... (9 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Sometimes obvious things... are not so obvious. I always thought that it was possible to grep non printable characters but not with my GNU grep (5.2.1) version.
printf "Hello\tWorld" | grep -l '\t'
printf "Hello\tWorld" | grep -l '\x09'
printf "Hello\tWorld" | grep -l '\x{09}'
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8. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
Hi there
I need to grep for a detail from a file. The pattern to search for involves escape sequences in it. This causes for the problem.
grep "P\_SOME\_STRING\_SEARCH" filename
Note, I have line like below in the file and expect it to grep.
select *
from my_system_param
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to sort a file, the sort is not a alphabetical sort, it's based on a predefined order which is read from a file called fSortOrder.
The format of the fSortOrder file is :
STARTPATH"
....
....
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Hi All,
I have lines like below in a file
A /u/ab/test1.dat
A/u/ab/test2.dat
A /u/bb/test3.dat
A/u/cc/test4.dat
I will need
/u/ab/test1.dat
/u/ab/test2.dat
/u/bb/test3.dat
/u/cc/test4.dat
Pls help
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