grep

shell command to find a process id and attach to it?

Hello I want to attach to a running process using 'ddd', what I manually do is: # ps -ax | grep PROCESS_NAME Then I get a list and the pid, then I type: # ddd PROCESS_NAME THE_PID Is there is a way to type just one command directly? Remark: When I type ps -ax | grep PROCESS_NAME, grep will match both the process and grep command ...

How do I pass the resulting files from one grep pass to another so that I only grep through the subset with the second pass?

Hello All, I want to be able to take the files I found with my first grep statement, something like this for example: grep -r Makefile * And then pass the files found in that pass of grep to a second grep with something like this for example: grep {files} '-lfoo' How do I do this? I know there must be a way. Thank you. ...

how to grep for the whole word

I am using the following command to grep stuff in subdirs find . | xargs grep -s 's:text' However, this also finds stuff like <s:textfield name="sdfsf"...../> What can I do to avoid that so it just finds stuff like <s:text name="sdfsdf"/> OR for that matter....also finds <s:text somethingElse="lkjkj" name="lkkj" basically s:text an...

bash grep finding java declarations

i have a huge .java file and i want to find all declared objects given the className. i think the declaration will always have the following signature: className objName; or className objName = or className objName= can someone suggest me a grep pattern which will find these signatures. I have the following (incomplete) : ...

Grep and Extract Data in Perl

I have HTML content stored in a variable. How do I extract data that is found between a set of common tags in the page? For example, I am interested in the data (represented by DATA kept between a set of tags which one line after the other: ... <td class="jumlah">*DATA_1*</td> <td class="ud"><a href="">*DATA_2*</a></td> ... And then I...

How do you use grep to find terms that are n characters long?

I'm using grep to filter the Mac OS X dictionary words file (by default located at /usr/share/dict/words). I want to use grep to retrieve all words four characters long. How do I do this? My best guess for how to do this was: grep [:alpha:]{4} words But that returns zero results. ...

Using grep to find all emails

Hi, How to properly construct regular expression for "grep" linux program, to find all email in, say /etc directory ? Currently, my script is following: grep -srhw "[[:alnum:]]*@[[:alnum:]]*" /etc It working OK - a see some of the emails, but when i modify it, to catch the one-or-more charactes before- and after the "@" sign ... grep...

UNIX Parse HTML Page Display Contents of a Tag - One Liner?

I have an HTML file and I am interested in the data enclosed by <pre> </pre> tags. Is there a one-liner that can do achieve this? Sample file : <html> <title> Hello There! </title> <body> <pre> John Working Kathy Working Mary Working Kim N/A </pre> </body> </html> Output should be : John Kathy Mary Kim Much appreciat...

Filtering out emoticons using sed

Hello, I have a grep expression using cygwin grep on Win. grep -a "\\,,/\|\\m/\|\\m/\\>\.</\\m/\|:u" all_fbs.txt > rockon_fbs.txt Once I identify the emoticon class, however, I want to strip them out of the data. However, the same regexp above within a sed results in a syntax error (yes, I realize I could use /d instead of //g, but t...

bash find xargs grep only single occurence

hi. maybe it's a bit strange - and maybe there are other tools to do this but, well.. i am using the following classic bash command to find all files which contain some string: find . -type f | xargs grep "something" i have a great number of files, on multiple depths. first occurence of "something" is enough for me, but find continue...

Count number of occurrences of a pattern in a file (even on same line)

When searching for number of occurrences of a string in a file, I generally use: grep pattern file | wc -l However, this only finds one occurrence per line, because of the way grep works. How can I search for the number of times a string appears in a file, regardless of whether they are on the same or different lines? Also, what if I...

How to "grep" out specific line ranges of a file

There are often times I'll grep -n whatev file to find what I'm looking for. Say the output is 1234: whatev 1 5555: whatev 2 6643: whatev 3 If I want to then just extract the lines between 1234 and 5555, is there a tool to do that? For static files I have a script that does wc -l of the file and then does the math to split it out wi...

Selectively search and replace certain lines using a regular expression

I have a file containing a lot of SQL statements, such as: CREATE TABLE "USER" ( "ID" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, "NAME" CHARACTER VARYING(50) NOT NULL, "AGE" INTEGER NOT NULL ); COPY "USER" (id, name, age) FROM stdin; 1 Skywalker 19 2 Kenobi 57 I want the column names in the COPY statements to be uppercased and quote...

How to grep in the git history?

I have deleted a file or some code in a file sometime in the past. Can I grep in the content (not in the commit messages)? A very poor solution is to grep the log: git log -p | grep However this doesn't return the commit hash straight away. I played around with "git grep" to no avail. ...

How to perform an action when a remote (Http) file changed?

Hi, I want to create a script that checks an URL and perform an action (download + unzip) when the "Last-Modified" header of the remote file changed. I thought about fetching the header with curl but then I have to store it somewhere for each file and perform a date comparison. Does anyone have a different idea using (mostly) standar...

shell script filter du and find by a string inside a file in a subfolder

I have the following command that I run on cygwin: find /cygdrive/d/tmp/* -maxdepth 0 -mtime -150 -type d | xargs du --max-depth=0 > foldersizesreport.csv I intended to do the following with this command: for each folder under /d/tmp/ that was modified in last 150 days, check its total size including files within it and ...

How do I get Git's latest stable release version number?

I'm writing a git-install.sh script: http://gist.github.com/419201 To get Git's latest stable release version number, I do: LSR_NUM=$(curl -silent http://git-scm.com/ | sed -n '/id="ver"/ s/.*v\([0-9].*\)<.*/\1/p') 2 Questions: Refactor my code: Is there a better way programmatically to do this? This works now, but it's brittle: if...

sed or grep or awk to match very very long lines

more file param1=" 1,deerfntjefnerjfntrjgntrjnvgrvgrtbvggfrjbntr*rfr4fv*frfftrjgtrignmtignmtyightygjn 2,3,4,5,6,7,8, rfcmckmfdkckemdio8u548384omxc,mor0ckofcmineucfhcbdjcnedjcnywedpeodl40fcrcmkedmrikmckffmcrffmrfrifmtrifmrifvysdfn drfr4fdr4fmedmifmitfmifrtfrfrfrfnurfnurnfrunfrufnrufnrufnrufnruf"**** need to match the content of p...

Optimize grep, awk and sed shell stuff

I try to sum the traffic of diffrent ports in the logfiles from "IPCop" so i write and command for my shell, but i think its possible to optimize the command. First a Line from my Logfile: 01/00:03:16 kernel INPUT IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=xxx SRC=xxx DST=xxx LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=98 ID=256 PROTO=TCP SPT=47438 DPT=1433 WINDOW=16384 RES=...

grep a specific word and sum it

I want to grep an environment variable env | grep ABC_IJK[1,2] currenlty defined variables are like this ABC_IJK1=123 ABC_IJK1_XYZ=sn123:345 ABC_IJK2=999 ABC_IJK2_XYZ=sn321:999 I only want to get only this ABC_IJK1=123 ABC_IJK2=999 get number of connections sum them(not 123 + 999) and save in N1 (this one has 2 connection) ...