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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
What is the best way (bash/awk/sed?) to read in two text files and do a keyword search/replace?
file1.txt:
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Dallas
file2.txt:
I love Los Angeles.
Coming to Dallas was the right choice.
San Francisco is fun.
Go to Seattle in the summer.
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Discussion started by: pxalpine
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2. 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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3. 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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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I have the following situation:
a text file with 50000 string patterns:
abc2344536
gvk6575556
klo6575556
....
and 3 text files each with more than 1 million lines:
...
000000 abc2344536 46575 0000
000000 abc2344536 46575 4444
000000 abc2344555 46575 1234
...
I... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: andy2000
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5. 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)
Discussion started by: pakspan
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am trying to write a shell script to search for a pattern in the directory and show only one entry for each field, essentially I am looking to search for a pattern in a file and list that file name. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: grajp002
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7. 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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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: siegfried
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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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