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Finding out total PHP usage in MB's

I'm trying to find out total memory used by all PHP processes on my CentOS server. After some grepping and awking this is my final command. ps -e | grep php | awk '{print $1}' | xargs pmap | grep ...
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Regex matching specific details if first match exists, multiline

I'm struggling to get the correct regex to match specifically 'Contact' and 'User-Agent' only if the 'Contact' address matches 10.0.x.x in ~70GB of SIP messages. The SIP message will always contain a ...
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remove non-printing characters

I have a tab delimited text file. When I open the file with vi editor, I can see ^M character (in blue color). This is not part of my data. It got there because the original SQL data had carriage ...
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grep + match value only if value in the end of line

please advice what is wrong with my code, ( I run this code on both OS linux and solaris ) I don't get the line from: "file ended with .tmp" example: I need to verify if $FILE ended with .tmp ...
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Extracting a line section of mysql backup using sed

I occasionally need to extract a single record from a mysqlbackup To do this, I first extract the single table I want from the backup... sed -n -e '/CREATE TABLE.*usertext/,/CREATE TABLE/p' ...
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Gathering IP's from a complicated log

I have a question regarding the use of some more advanced grep, awk, sed. I have a log file, for a proprietary MTA, that contains IP's in a string, delimited by [redacted]^~x.x.x.x^[redacted]. So far ...
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Grep to find lines starting at pattern A until pattern B is matched

I have a log that contains bits like this: [2012-04-16 15:16:43,827: DEBUG/PoolWorker-2] {'feed': {}, 'bozo': 1, 'bozo_exception': URLError(error(110, 'Connection timed out'),), 'entries': []} ...
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Extracting lines from a file based on prefix

I need to extract all lines from file2 that begin with an id # prefix contained in file1. File 1 is single column like: 324 399 408 135236 321590 File 2 is multi-column like: 1 [tab] 108 [tab] ...
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Can awk be used instead?

I would like to get the number from rating as output from this # nc localhost 9571 language: language:en_ZA.UTF-8 language:en_ZW.UTF-8 session-with-name:Ubuntu Classic (No effects):gnome-session ...
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How to remove a certain symbol for a bash script

I have a bash script where I get the disk usage, for example 60%. How can I remove the % symbol? Using grep or awk?
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AWK - Is it possible to search for pattern, then sort results based on a wildcard?

I am storing a number of individually serialized PHP arrays to a file. Each line of the file contains one serialized array. For example: a:2:{s:4:"name";s:8:"John Doe";s:3:"age";s:2:"20";} ...
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Using Find, Grep, Awk, or Sed To Rename Server After Cloning

My client tells me they have cloned a VM in VMWare of an Ubuntu Linux server. Now it's my job to get into all the files and find out what still has the old server name of "bishop" and change it to ...
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alias to replace a text in file

here is a practical situation.I facing some of my files where there is a common string in these files.I usually will open vi and do some thing like :%s/text/replacement/g and I have to do it in ...
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how to find out mac addresses of all machines on network

Is there some easy way to find out mac address of all machines on my network rather than doing an SSH into each and ifconfig | grep HWaddr if there are 300 machines on network I really need some easy ...
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Need help on awk/sed/ perl pattern with regex / grep

Sample file output from grep file1:my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:$database_name", $DB_USER, $DB_PASSWD) file2:($dbc,$rc) = mysql_connect($mysql_host,$mysql_user,$mysql_password); The awk ...
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Do you have any useful awk and grep scripts for parsing apache logs?

I can use log analyzers, but often I need to parse recent web logs to see what's happening at the moment. I sometimes do things like to figure out top 10 ips that request a certain file cat foo.log ...