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How to grep for pipe |
How can I grep for line containing pipe character | or for character >:
files content:
|this is test
where is >
this is none
now what I need using grep command is
grep -iE "<some ...
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sh and grep numbers only
I'm facing a problem and trying to find a solution that works in sh.
If I could use bash this code would work:
ls /a|grep ^[0-9]
Unfortunately this is not the case with sh, and yes I need to use sh. ...
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tcsh vs zsh. Escape/control characters
I am having problems running this command to work in zsh:
my_command -u something -s X:^0
The command works right away on tcsh, but on zsh I get:
zsh: no matches found -s X:^0
This made me ...
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Can't use exclamation mark (!) in bash?
I'm trying to use the curl command to access a http url with a exclamation mark (!) in its path. e.g:
curl -v "http://example.org/!287s87asdjh2/somepath/someresource"
the console replies with bash: ....
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Difference between ' and " on command line (bash)? [duplicate]
I used to use '' and "" (single and double-quotes) interchangeably on the command line, but I recently noticed that '$HOME/some/dir' is not expanded, while "$HOME/some/dir" is. I searched around a ...
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