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Filter for arbitrary AND patterns [duplicate]
Consider a command which takes arguments like this: cmd foo bar baz [arbitrary args...]. How do you build a filter of AND patterns based on those arguments? Something like this pipeline of greps: grep ...
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How to find keywords in multiple files which often appear together?
I want to find keywords, which often occur in relation to each other. Example A directory contains markdown files, each with some keywords on the last line: $ tail -n 1 file1.md #doctor #donkey #...
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Grep lines that match pattern twice
Usually grep outputs any lines that match a pattern. I want to be able to find lines that match the pattern multiple times. For example, if my search pattern was "foo", then: foo bar #...
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one shell command to find every n-gram works in text
I have a text stream or a file that contains words separated by whitespace. Like: I have a toy. you may not like it. Every whitespace-separated word may be composed by two or more small words, maybe ...
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I want to extract particular column from the file, column number is given in different file using shell scripting?
I want to extract particular column from the file1 by comparing with file2 in which column number is given that should be extracted from file1. File 1 (source data) look like this: 1 2 3 4 5 ...
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Concatenate a string with a variable in grep command
I have to search by this pattern: _20181106 20181106 is yesterdays date, so it has to be be a variable like TZ=aaa24 date +%Y%m%d How can I search a file with this pattern? I'm working with AIX
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Grep a pattern from a file and get that whole word, not just the pattern
List item I/P: abcd_Server1 CCDDomain defg_Server1 GGFDomain kdkhs_Server1 CCDDomain abce_Server1 CCDDomain dgdg_Server1 CCADomain dfdkhs_Server1 GGFDomain I need to search for the word "Domain" and ...
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How to count occurrences of each word belonging to a file in all of `n` number of files passed as arguments?
I am looking for a shell script that accepts a list of file names as its arguments, counts and reports the occurrence of each word that is present in the first argument file on other argument files. ...
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grep with line breaks
I have got large 200 MB mail history text file and I have to find a line that has the following structure: lastname name streetname numberOfHouse postalcode cityname namely: Arthur Dent Galaxy 7 ...
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awk string match from 2 columns
I have a file (file 1) which reads something like this: 2 test1 3 test2 2 test3 1 test1 4 test2 And there is a master file (file2): 2 test1 3 test1 4 test1 2 test2 3 test2 4 ...
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How to get path, row index and content of row in bash shell?
I have a file and I want search some text in this file and export path of file, row index of content iIsearched and content of row. I use this command: grep -rnw 'path-file' -e 'patter' but the ...
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Find files that contain multiple keywords anywhere in the file
I'm looking for a way to list all files in a directory that contain the full set of keywords I'm seeking, anywhere in the file. So, the keywords need not to appear on the same line. One way to do ...
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Find all line in a file which start with g or any digit from 0to9
How do I find all lines in a file which start with g or any digit from 0 to 9? Can any one help me using command line? I try and I know how to do if start with g but don't know how to do with g and 0 ...
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Elegant way of counting how many times patterns from a file occur in another file
Imagine that we have two for example files. The first file is filled with unique names of employees created by combining the first two characters of the first name and the last 2 characters of the ...
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How Do I Remove Duplicate Words With Suffixes?
How do I compare a list of unsorted words of variable length and remove duplicate words that have a suffix? Example word list: iron curl curled railroad curler ...
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