10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
If I have a file like the following
abc.1
abc
abc_1
abc..1
abc*1
abc@1
abc def ghr
def......
ddef 5466 def ed
def** 123445
I`m trying to find exact words from the list
abc
def (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ritakadm
4 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file which has numerous lines and some of the lines having special characters in it. i want to grep the lines which are having special characters.
say,
one line looks like - %*()$#@"", | acbd
antoher line looks like ***##^%! | efcg
so these kind of lines are present... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rbalaj16
5 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there any command or shell script to grep any special character from a file ? I have a huge file containing millions of user names; the requirement is to find names containing special characters.
#!/bin/bash
for i in `cat username.txt`
do
#COMMAND to grep special character
done
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: poga
3 Replies
4. 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 ,
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" /v NoClose /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f ,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jalpasoni
4 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm looking for SED equivalent for grep -w -f. All I want is to search a list of patterns from a file. Also If the pattern doesn't match I do not want "null returned", rather I would prefer some text as place holder say "BLANK LINE" as I intend to process the output file based on line number.
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: novice_man
1 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi everybody
I am a new user to this forum and its previous posts have been very useful. I'm searching in a file using grep for patterns like
12.13.444
55.44.443
i.e. of form
<digit><digit>.<digit><digit>.<digit><digit><digit>
Can anybody help me with this.
Thanks in advance (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jpriyank
4 Replies
7. 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.
How do I force the command to take the pipe | ? I guess... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: daveaasmith
2 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file that I am processing with a while loop from, in come cases the grep/sed command (strings record | grep “errorDetail” | sed 's&*errorDetail\(.*)\(/errorDetail\).*&\1&') works and produces the data I am after and in some it does not. I have inspected the data within the failing... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gugs
3 Replies
9. 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
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: guruparan18
3 Replies
10. 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"
....
....
The file that needs to be sorted is called tmpUnsorted and contains data in the format : ... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vashj
6 Replies