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find . -exec grep string {} /dev/null \;
As I recall, there is often a problem using
I haven't used this in a while, but I recall getting errors because this usage of find also 'finds' directories, binaries, and just about everything else under the sun. Because it finds binaries, directories, etc. it attempts to search them and gets pretty messy.
Will find only regular files, and not directories, but does not stop the grep from searching large binaries, as I recall. That is why I usually don't use this combo for grepping strings and forgot about this one. I don't recall a switch in find to stop it from 'finding' binary files. Perhaps there is ?
In COBOL, a hyphen can be used in a field name and in a specific program some field names would be identical to others except a suffix was added--sometimes a suffix to a suffix was used. For example, assume I am looking for AAA, AAA-BBB, and AAA-BBB-CCC and don't want to look at AAA-BBB-CCC... (7 Replies)
Guys,
i've got hundreds of C programs in my ~/devel/ directory and sub-directories. is there a way i can use grep -r followed by some zsh, sh, bash, to find some code that starts with "&foo" or something similar?
thanks in advance! (9 Replies)
I am making an eBook.
I am editing the html in BBedit.
I need to replace all <p class="s5"> with just a <p>.
How do I write this for GREP?
Thank you,
Abby (5 Replies)
Hello people!
I would like to create one script following this stage
I have one directory with 100 files
File001
File002
...
File100
(This is the format of content of the 100 files)
2012/03/10 12:56:50:221875936 1292800448912 12345 0x00 0x04 0
then I have one... (0 Replies)
Hi all ,
I'm new to unix
I have a checked project , there exists a file called xxx.config .
now my task is to find all the files in the checked out project which references to this xxx.config file.
how do i use grep or find command . (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Please tell me how can I Find a string using grep & print the line above or below that in solaris?
Please share as I am unable to use grep -A or grep -B as it is not working on Solaris. (10 Replies)
Hi All,
Please i need to know the difference between grep, egrep & grep -i when used to serach through a file.
My platform is SunOS 5.9 & i'm using the korn shell.
Regards,
- divroro12 - (2 Replies)
find . -type f -name "*.sql" -print|xargs perl -i -pe 's/pattern/replaced/g'
this is simple logic to find and replace in multiple files & folders
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Zaheer (0 Replies)
Folks;
First about find:
when i run this:
find . -name '*log*' -mtime +10 -print | sed 's+^\./++;s+/.*++' | sort -u
i got list of log files but also get a directories (although directory names doesn't have "log" in it).
How can i exclude the directory from the output of this find command? ... (2 Replies)