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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I hope somebody would be able to help me.
I would need to search a string coming from a file, example file.txt:
dog
cat
goat
horse
fish
For every string, I would need to know if there are any files inside a directory(recursively) that contains the string regardless of case.... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: kokoro
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need some help trying to achieve the below but everything I've tried has failed, I have 2 files which i'm trying to carry out a match based on the first column from file 1, take that value find it in file 2 if found replace it with the second column from File 1
Lookup File: File 1... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mutley2202
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
How can I use find command to search string/pattern in a file recursively?
What I tried:
find . -type f -exec cat {} | grep "make" \;
Output:
grep: find: ;: No such file or directory
missing argument to `-exec'
And this:
find . -type f -exec cat {} \; -exec grep "make" {} \;... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: cola
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I wanted to find and replace an email id from entire directory structure on a Linux server. I found that find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/abc@yahoo.com/xyz@gmail.com/g' would do it perfectly.
But my search criteria has extended and now I want to search for a string1 like... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pat_pramod
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am very new to unix - ksh. I want to replace some characters in a file with some other, but only for first three occurances for each line.
For eg:
the first 3 occurances character ']' has to be replaced with ',' in each line.
Please help.
thanks
Sreejith (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rsreejithmenon
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Gurus,
Need little guidance.
I have A.txt and B.txt file. B.txt file contains Unique strings.
Sample content of B.txt file for which i cut the fourth column uniquely and output directed to B.txt file
And A.txt file contains the above string as a fourth column which is last column.
So A.txt... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shirisha
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a large file that looks like the below output:
system SUNWxwmod X Window System kernel modules
system SUNWxwoft X Window System optional fonts
system SUNWxwopt X Window System Optional Clients
system ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: hxman
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a file exep_file.txt with contents similar to,
xyx request 1329207.
sdf sedf sg gds request 1329207.
as as fa df sdf request 1329207.
xyx request 1329209.
sdf sedf sg gds request 1329209.
as as fa df sdf request 1329209.
I need an output like
1329207
1329209
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: happyrain
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I have a directory structure as dir and subdirectories and files under it and so on.now I need to find the files which contain the search string under every dir and subdir and replace .
my search string is like
searchstring=/a/b
string to be replaced=/a/c/b
please help.
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohanpadamata
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
file.txt contains
abc :-X 1234 :-X fjhfkf :-X ffwerw :-X fdfgetw :-X hwfhe89 :-X
in the this file there are 6 occurance of -X
i want to replace only first 3 occurances of '-X' with 'XY'
and write back to same file. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: nawazkhan77
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