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Handling Space in Filename for sed command
I have 3 files: en.json, en 1.json and en 2.json. All of them have the below content { "ABC" : "/long_name", "DFG" : "/{long_name}" } I run ...
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Find how many words in a file contain a number in them?
I am trying to find the total number of words in a specific file that contain a number. Not a specific number, I'm just looking for words that contain any number at all. I tried using the grep and ...
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How to zgrep and then gzip multiple files individually?
I have the following code which searches for a term in multiple files (file1.json.gz, file2.json.gz, etc etc) using zgrep, and then using gzip it saves the output into a single file: zgrep -i 'help' /...
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Is there a problem with grep command? I am getting characters that don't match my regular expression
I ran this command: grep -i 'bro*' shows.csv and got this as output 1845307,2 Broke Girls,2011,138,6.7,89093 1702042,An Idiot Abroad,2010,21,8.3,29759 903747,Breaking Bad,2008,62,9.5,1402577 2249364,...
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Remove all URLs in a series with the same domain except the last occurrence, in a long list of many URL series
I have a problem that I think sed is probably perfect for, but I don't know enough about it to figure out how to employ it correctly. Here's what I have - a file like this, but much longer: https://...
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Changing content format [duplicate]
I have a text file which has 1000 rows/entries. These 1000 entries correspond to the column names for my dataframe. These are the new features that need to be added to the dataframe for model ...
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grep for lines not after a pattern
I'm trying to find all lines of a file not being after a specific pattern. For some time I had an issue with my history using GNU bash (version 4 and 5) where commands appeared in duplicates. I ...
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ps does not support the -x flag on a particular version of linux
My ps command works except on a particular version on Linux as you can see below. [root@failinghost ~]# ps -xef | grep -v grep | grep websphere Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/...
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Replace specific characters inside quotes
I'm trying to mask some sensitive data in a log file. I first need to filter out specific lines from the file with a matching pattern and then for those specific lines I need to replace any text ...
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Question about Gnu/Linux command line interface, with grep, ls, and cat
Greetings Stack Exchange, My Goal:Execute ls to search the entire directory structure and grep to search for cats.py. Use cat to read the file cats.py. I know that sounds like Gnu/Linux inception. ...
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How to list all files that end in ".doc" that exist in a directory and subdirectories whose name contain a certain word WITHOUT piping? [closed]
For example, If I have a directory called Test and it has a file named test.doc and String and a subdirectory Tests with doc2.doc So the output in this case would just be test.doc because the ...
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Beautify the o/p of grep command
I am writing a bash script. It runs a couple of grep commands, and record the output of the grep command, in a text file. I am getting the output, but it is not formatted, so it is very difficult to ...
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output mixed alphanumeric input with grep,pipe and cat
I have a mixed wordlist as an input: azert12345 a1z2e3r4t5 a1z2e3r455 The command line I have tried to execute: cat file.txt | grep -E "[[:digit:]]{5}" --color What do I want to accomplish: Print ...
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Use grep to search for words beginning with non-word characters
The contents of the file testing.txt are: ls -a cmake --verbose verbose I want to use grep to look through this file and find only the word beginning with "--" i.e. the word "--verbose" However ...
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Search for files using terminal and open with preferred program when clicked?
I would like to somehow create links to files within the terminal from search results found when searching files. Same way you would click a hyperlink within the terminal, but in this case it would be ...
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