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Listing a certain part of filenames and their contents
I have a Linux machine with BusyBox,
which has a directory called /data/var/lib/connman.
That directory holds some directories that I'm not interested in.
But it contains many .config files that ...
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Find files matching one pattern, but not another, using grep, awk or sed [duplicate]
I need to locate .php and .pl files that do not contain one string (e.g. aaa), but do contain another (e.g. bbb).
I'm currently using this command:
find /path/ \( -iname '*.php*' -or -name '*.pl*' \) -...
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Find the highest number after specific string from mutiple files
Each file has similar content:
number 1:
asdfa11sdfsadf
number 2:
asdfa12sdfsadf
number 1:
asdfa1sdfsadf
number 3:
asdfa33sdfsadf
return
3 or number 3: are equally good.
Have tried:
max="$( awk ...
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Recursive grep matching only specific line number
How can I can I find files that contain a specific pattern on a specific line number ?
Let's assume I have a directory with a bunch of text files containing 3 lines, such as:
Title A
Category X
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Using find + grep + awk in combination
I'd need to filter through a list files (output of top command) for some info:
Firstly I need to list files with a find
Then, I need to grep for lines with a pattern
Finally, I need to pickup one ...
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Find text files that have 2 terms in them (in any order, at any line) [duplicate]
I have been looking at grep -e where you are doing an "and" operation which is the sort of thing I want. However, if I get it right, the two terms have to be in the same line to be returned.
What I ...
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Using awk, find or grep for svn export
I am trying to download only some files with the name "battery", using svn export:
svn export https://github.com/zayronxio/Mojave-CT/trunk/panel/24 | awk "battery"
svn export https://github.com/...
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Get entire paragraph by searching single word or multiple
I need your help in scripting portion.
I have a configuration file for routers as below,
# TiMOS-C-16.0.R5-1 cpm/hops64 Nokia 7750 SR Copyright (c) 2000-2019 Nokia.
# All rights reserved. All use ...
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Find text with wildcard [closed]
I am looking in a /etc/hosts file for hosts that should contain servers that look at least like this:
mobile.example.com
more.mobile.example.com
and NOT example.com
I want to search with a wildcard ...
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Find files (not) containing text pattern on a specified line
I'm trying to search through a set of text files and return the names of files that on a specified line contain a text pattern OR do not contain the text on the specified.
In my case I need to return ...
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Search recursive for files that contains a specific combination of strings on the first line
I need to find all files that cointains in the first line the strings: "StockID" and "SellPrice".
Here is are some exemples of files :
1.csv :
StockID Dept Cat2 Cat4 Cat5 Cat6 Cat1 ...
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Recursively find ONLY the latest logs in all sub-folders and save to file
I am working on a RHEL7 box. I need to recursively find all the LATEST (and only the latest) .log files in each sub-folder below a certain hierarchy and list their full paths in a file 'all_logs.txt'...
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Using 'find' then searching each line for two values in bash script
Hello all I have a slew of files I search through with 'find' recursively then once all those file types are found I want to remove all records not matching this string on each line, in this order:
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Negative search in find/grep pipeline not removing any records
I am struggling a bit with my bash find command.
The problem is a late requirement which wants me to strip off all records from *.app files containing *.appstrng"
This is my original find pipeline ...
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Grep a word in the file and then search backward for a pattern [closed]
I have a file in which I have to search for a word and as soon as I find that word , I have to keep that record in my output and also I need to go back from that record and take a previous record as ...
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