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(standart input) shown instead file name with grep -iHn "ERROR" and a second grep -vH "filter" shows (standard input) and no longer the file name
What I try to do:
Find all log files from this day
Then grep "ERROR" in the files
Then grep -v "Not this line containing the filter" as Filter in result of the first grep command
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Bash command substitution issues
I'm writing a Python script to parse various logs across different hosts.
I can successfully run bash scripts via Python's subprocess module, however, I want to minimize the number of ssh calls, so I'...
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Search for all directories that are smaller than 4MB
I want to display all directories that are smaller than 4MB using find command.
Already tried find / type d -size -4000000c(same with a dot instead of/`) but both combinations display files too. What ...
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Recursive search and replace a string with dot in text files on Mac
Team, I see there are multiple similar questions but I did try some answers and still not able to get what I want. I want to replace a text as "product-ui-test-creds.json" to "vaulted-...
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Tar: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
I am trying to make a create a backup bash script from multiple source dir to a different destination dir.
So I used find to search for source dir folder name, save it into variable and use it for tar ...
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Fix the following command so that it does search the home directory for files names README.md
I am confused on these two answers I got. Question:
Fix the following command so that it does search the home directory for files named README.md:
find README.md ~
find ~ -type f -name README.md (...
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How to get bash find exec to directly execute commands instead of using a temp file? [duplicate]
I've written this BASH script:
find ./build/html -name '*.html' \( -exec echo ../emojize_pngorsvg.py \"{}\" \> \"{}.emojized\" \&\& rm \"{}\" \&\& mv \&...
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Sort a huge collection of text files
I'm trying to sort a huge collection of text files. They are in various folders.
All the files and folders doesn't have spaces in their names.
The text files names look like: hsXOAXOMQovq.txt (12 ...
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Find command doesn't work properly for a hidden folder
I have the following directory tree:
Inside the "all" folder there are a lot of subfolder, let's call one of them "mainfolder".
What I want to do is:
to delete all files in the ...
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Bash command to list names of specific directories and subdirectories on Linux
I need a bash command that searches the directory "rawdata" for all subdirectories with names starting with "AB", searches all these for the subdirectory "demo" and ...
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bash: excluding found files located in the subdirs
My script looks for the files of trr extension and then copy it to the target dit, (all_trr)
dir=$(pwd)
traj_ext='trr'
# save the data into:
all_trr=${dir}/PCA
# refresh PCA folder
if [ -d "${...
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Search 32 character long directories only with find
Let say I have a directory with a lot of subdirectories:
04762b39018e3cf4b1a2c6a304919b75
06e0caf156de30dd962cf6b9300aba66
1f1d0cb1b810336299cda5426d0f12f5
2fe7a428eb303da6846800fa20ab7ed4
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With BASH, 'find' matching files, delete them all, then if one or more was found, do ONE more thing
I want to periodically search for the existence of all files on my system matching a specific name, delete them, and then afterwards if any were found at all, run an additional command.
test=1
find /...
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bash: find truncates some paths [duplicate]
I'm using MacOS 13.0.1 and try to find + loop over .mov files to convert them to MP4 using FFMPEG. Many of my path contain spaces and special characters. I found a way of putting things together ...
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Sed replace single text with content of file
I have a question regarding using sed.
I have a JSON file and I want to get it inserted in another file.
What I'm trying is to get all the contents of the .json file which contains 4500 lines, and ...
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