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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have log :
# cat log
$ cat 4
2014092014
2014102014
2014112023
2014123014
2014010100
2014010101
2014010102
2014010103
2014010104
2014020123
2014020115
2014020116 (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: justbow
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
a='CASH$$A'
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep -F "$a" *.txt
It is not able to grep CASH$$A string as it contains special character $$.
I also tried with
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep -F '$a' *.txt
but still not working.
I have to assign CASH$$A to a variable and serach that variable..i dont want to search the... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: millan
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
Im trying check if character "æ" (alt+145) is included or not in some files. To do that I have written a scrip with vi that basically is a loop of all these compressed files and something like:
zcat $file | grep æ >> logtocheck.out ;
The problem is that æ is translated to something like... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ngb
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello , this is my first topic cause I need your little help:(
I got .txt file, and I want to find lines without letter 'a', so im writing:
grep "" list.txt (list.txt is the file of course)
and i have no idea why it's not working because it shows lines with a. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bbqtoss
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a pwd file with a number of errors like: ^grep ^ I get the whole file since it thinks it's new line. Should I \ to escape this? (4 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I am learning regex fundamentals on my own and when I try to use \w for characters (i.e. ), or \d for digits () it doesnt work even though I see in greps man page that \w should be the same as ]...
] and those types of syntactic character classes do work for me, its just the shorthand \w \W and... (4 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
All,
I am trying to grep "-----" from a test when i use this i am getting the below error. What is the reason for this ?????... How can i over come this
##) echo "----------------- test_sys_job -----------------" | grep "-----------------"
grep: illegal option -- -
grep: illegal... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello people,
I am trying to grep out a certain pattern from some files. The situation is like this:
constantstring1<random data>constantstring2
I am using the following command (which clearly is not working!!!):
datestring=<some date in YYYYMMDD format>
searchstring=$datestring"*_xyz"
grep... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rajat
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can I grep for a certain letter that only shows on the 3rd letter or character.
ex:
ASGHDY
SHTYRD
SDTYRD
IGIKGD
I only want the TY part of the 3rd character
so output would only be SHTYRD and DDTYRD - I only want the TY on the 3rd character.
THANKS (5 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Does anyone know how to use grep/egrep to find a string that contains a null character?
i.e.: the string looks like this: null0001nullN
well I want to be able to : grep '0001N'
is there a wildcard character or something that I can put in the grep to include the nulls? (3 Replies)
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