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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
without using conventional file searching commands like find etc, is it possible to locate a file if i just know that the file that i'm searching for contains a particular text like "Hello world" or something? (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: arindamlive
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am making a script but having little problem. at one part I need to find one number format or other format from a file..
those formats are xxx-xx-xxxx or xxxxxxxxx
i tried
grep '( \{3\}-\{2\}-\{3\} |\{9\})'
if i do them sepratly it work but like this it is not working
Please check... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Learnerabc
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi, I have the following command to list files beginning with a specific name and containing some text...
find . -type f -name "dm_merge_domain_adm*" -exec grep -il "Error Message:" '{}' \; -print|xargs ls -ltr
It works fine, but seems to list two of each file, when they only exist once...any... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: chrislluff1976
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How would i search to find all the lines consisting of of only the letter "z" followed by any four characters? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: trob
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi! i'm trying to do a script (i'm not an expert, as you will see...:o) to search files in a directory (and its subdirectories). I'd like to have something like this:
mysearch -a arg1 -b arg2 -c arg3 ecc...
I'd like to be able to search for files in different ways: for example, with
my... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Kaminski
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I would like to do a search and replace on a file using vi.
Something like this:
:%s/dst_port=****//g
I want to search the entire file and replace all text that does not match dst_port=**** with space or nothing. In other words delete everything except for dst_port=****. The four *... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: andyblaylock
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
At the moment I am able to add text to a file but what I need to do is make sure the same value is not duplicated.
Can anyone tell me how to search a file and prevent an update from taking place if the value to be entered already exists in the file?
Any help would be greatly... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: straight_edge
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I have a file
/db01/dat/march 2006/7001DW06.03B
Please note, between "march 2006" there is a space/tab.
While running the following script, it identifies
/db01/dat/march ----> as first file
2006/7001DW06.03B ---> as second file.
SRC_PATH = /db01/dat
SEARCH_FILENAME =... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: ronald_brayan
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Guys
Im checking some of my files for errors. I want to be able to find text and make sure it's located on the right place.
Example
Chapter 1
TEXT LKJ
TEXT 12Y
more and more text
Chapter 2
TEXT 34G
TEXT HHG
more and more text
Chapter 3
TEXT FG45
TEXT 11w
more and more text
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: tony3101
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am having a hard time trying to do the following:
I have a file that looks like this:
0 CacheMaxConn 4 64
0 RMThread 16 3423423
7 DataSource 0 /hello/sas/ses
0 {94545B4-E343-1410-81E4-08000000} 3 DDBE
3 ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: yotoruja
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06-14-2011
im trying to work it out but I am still not used to it. my problem is searching. very often I should look for piece of string in a text file or a file itself: 