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Why does grepping ps [p]rocess_name exclude grep from the results

A cool trick that saves you from having to use grep -v when grepping ps output (yes I know pgrep exists) is to put the first letter of the process into a character class like ps -ef |grep [s]vn. This ...
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How to find files that don't contain a given search string

I have a command that finds all the PDF files that contain the string "Font" find /Users/me/PDFFiles/ -type f -name "*.pdf" -exec grep -H 'Font' '{}' ';' How can I change this command such that it ...
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Grep first number value from quota -u

I would like to get first number from: [root@nowosci /]# quota -u testclient Ograniczenia dyskowe user testclient (uid 7798): System plików bloki miękki twardy pobł. pliki miękki twardy pobł. ...
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find and delete files of a certain type inside a tar.gz file

Is there a way to not only find but also delete any .gz files inside a .tar.gz file? I found this link but I wouldn't know how to modify it to make it able to delete found files.
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How can I count the number of lines matching a pattern returned from a linux command

How can I count the number of lines matching a pattern returned from a linux command I want the number of lines returned beginning with 'foo' , so if I pipe the output to grep will this ...
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grep to IP address when IP address in parameter

I need to grep to IP address ( as the following example ) , I use ksh script , # ifconfig -a | /usr/xpg4/bin/grep "100\.106\.2\.120 " inet 100.106.2.120 netmask ffffff00 broadcast ...
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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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Is there a way to find a specific word in all files/folders in Linux?

I usually use grep word * while being in a folder which includes files that have that word. But in this folder i also have folders which under them there are files that have that word, what is the ...
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grep + Regular Expressions to match uniq number

My target is to verify if $FILE is a backup file ( backup file ended with xxxx.xx.xx.xx number Example of backup files ls /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config main.cf.17Dec2012.09.10.14 ...
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How can I grep for two values from the same input being piped to it?

CentOS 5.x I'm trying to build a shell script that searches data provided via stdin. Here's an example of the input stream: Date: 1/1/11 Time: 12:00 AM Foo: 12345 Foo1: dskjflsdkjflksdjlfds ...
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Kill process by command name

I would like to kill a java process based on the command name... Whats the best way to do it? (i.e. when you do ps -f the name in the CMD column).
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Delete All Files Matching Pattern In Directory

How can I delete all files containing -20 in the filename in the current directory? I have ls | grep "-20" | rm -rf But that does not work. Ideas? Thanks.
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Find text, then insert linebreak and some php code across multiple files

I have a certain php code comment that appears in about 75 files across several users. This command succsessfully locates it. (I didn't bother looking for the double slashes because I wasn't sure ...
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bash : “set -e” and check if a user exists make script exit

I am writing a script to install a program with Bash. I want to exit on error so I added set -e to the beginning of my script. I have to check if a user exists inside of my script. To do this I am ...
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GREP show lines that contain this but not that

I would like to search for lines that contain "uploaded" but do not contain "09" Is there a way to do this with grep? (CentOS 5.6 if it matters).
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How to grep httpd error_log within a time range?

How can I grep only lines from a huge (120GB) httpd error_log based on a time range, say: from 2011-11-15 11:30 pm to 2011-11-16 01:30 am Thanks!
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How do I search by multiple keywords when using awk or grep?

I have a collection of files. I want to search through them all with grep to find all and only those which contain anywhere within them both the strings keyword1 and keyword2. I would also like to ...
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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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tee and grep at the same time (shell)?

I'm trying to run a server that writes to $log (a txt file) and then find all the text in the logfile that starts with [1] and put it in another file. Here's my attempt. tee -a $log works along with ...
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redirecting “tail --follow=name | grep” to a file

Here is my scenario: I have a log file that is being wrote too by an application. The log file is named "alarms.log". I want to tail the file for a certain string and redirect that to a file called ...
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In tail -f, how do I filter out stuff that has certain keywords?

I want to tail -f my logs. However, I want to filter out everything that has the words: "ELB", "Pingdom", "Health"
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Is there a flag I can pass to either `df` or `mount` to make them display results for only locally-mounted filesystems?

I'm getting mighty tired of having to manually egrep out NFS- and SMB-mounted filesystems whenever I am checking on the condition of locally-mounted filesystems. So, my question is thus: is there some ...
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Combine multiple unix commands into one output

I need to search our mail logs for a specific e-mail address. We keep a current file named maillog as well as a week's worth of .bz2 files in the same folder. Currently, I'm running the following ...
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Move all images in folder to subfolder, and update all references to those images to their new location?

I have a folder which contains a ~50 text files (PHP) and hundreds of images. I would like to move all the images to a subfolder, and update the PHP files so any reference to those images point to the ...
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Recover programmation source files

I've source code files (Java and C++) to recover from a broken RAID 1+0 array, I've been able to access the virtual drive with an other server but the ReiserFS partition can't be recovered with ...
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How can I remove malware code in multiple files with sed?

I've this malware code in so many .html and .php files on the server. I need to remove them using sed -i expression search all files under directory /home/ find infected files remove the code by ...
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Send email based on grep results

I'm using WebInject (CLI not GUI) to test out online web services. I was going to go with a third party until I found this little gem and realized what I could save... What I want to accomplish is to ...
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New 64 bit linux system has regular processes (ps, grep etc) taking up way too much VIRT mem

We just moved from a 32-bit machine to a 64-bit machine. We have quickly ran out of memory despite the new boxes have twice as much ram as the old boxes. Running a simple ps command will illustrate ...
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How to view hidden files using Linux `find` command

On a Linux server, I need to find all files with a certain file extension in the current directory and all sub-directories. Previously, I have always using the following command: find . -type f | ...
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How to remove a tagged block of text in a file?

How can I remove all instances of tagged blocks of text in a file with sed, grep, or another program? If I have a file which contains: random text // START TEXT internal text // ...
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“watching” a log on FreeBSD vs Linux

On Linux systems I can watch -n1 tail /var/log/whatever.log or watch -n1 grep somestuff /var/log/whatever.log To show updates to a log every 1 seconds. On FreeBSD however, the watch command does ...
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non greedy grep command on ubuntu?

I'm building a script which filters out all our translatables from our template system. the problem i'm facing is the occasion where 2 translatables are on one line. These are 2 example lines from a ...
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Grep a word from a file

How can i grep a nearer word from a file ? E.g 04-02-2010 Workingday 05-02-2010 Workingday 06-02-2010 Workingday 07-02-2010 Holiday 08-02-2010 Workingday 09-02-2010 Workingday I stored ...
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How to use grep commend with variable

How can i use grep commend with variable ? I stored ' Feb 1 ' (future it will be changeable) to variable 'date'. Now i want to grep this variable 'date', How can i do this ?
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grep to find files that contain a string greater than x characters long?

Is it possible to locate files in a directory that have strings (with no spaces) longer than x length?
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Outputting grep to multiple variables

I what to have bash script to grep output to multiple variables but have no idea how to do that: command |grep bla > $result1 $result2 etc... Any ideas? S
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Local full text index for a directory tree, a quicker alternative for grep -R

I have a large directory tree of source files. I want to search around all these files. My first instinct is to use grep -R or ack, but either way they just sequentially read all the files. Is there ...
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Linux Command to find Strings in Binary or non ascii file

Is there any linux command to extracts all the ascii strings from an executable or other binary file? I suppose I could do it with a grep, but I remember hearing somewhere that such a command existed? ...
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SED Find & Replace w\ Regular Expressions

Alright, So i'm confused & out of ideas. I'm trying to replace all the old IP addresses with a new one. find -type f | grep \.php$ | xargs sed -r -i ...
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How to reproduce grep's --recursive option in an old version of grep

I am working on an ancient UNIX whose grep lacks the -r/--recursive option. I need to find an error that our application is causing, but I do not know which log file our application is writing ...
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How does one simular the old unix grep -S strict functionality in linux (CentOS 5.2)

I am grepping the output of a command and I wish to only return specific, strict results. I remember some iteration of grep had a strict option -s/--strict. example: command | grep -i bytes This ...
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How to Find a file in FreeBSD

I'm trying to locate all copies of example.filename on my FreeBSD server. What's the best / easiest / most efficient way to do this?