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egrep in bash script not working
I have this set of commands :
s3ls="aws s3 ls $ssyss3/ --recursive --human-readable --summarize"
egrepCommand="egrep '$currentDate|Total'"
totalSize=$(echo $s3ls|$egrepCommand| awk -F 'Total Size:' '{...
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Different output when alias
I have a command set as an alias like this:
alias badalarm="cat ~/sagLogs/* | grep -I 'failed to generate expected' | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq | tee /dev/tty | wc -l"
It gives me this output:
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Alias grep quote usage
I'm trying to make an alias in the bashrc file but having issues. I want the command to grep the access logs of our server for a particular IP address. My current entry is:
alias ip_usage='sudo grep "...
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Bash alias problem
I can't understand why using alias prompts an error, but using the same syntax without alias does not...
alias grep='egrep -iIs '
19:47:24 ~
cat /etc/services | \grep ssh
ssh 22/tcp #...
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How to extend bash aliases
How to create an alias that actually extends another alias of the same name in
Bash?
Why:
I used to have GREP_OPTIONS set on .bashrc to something like this:
GREP_OPTIONS="-I --exclude=\*~"
I also ...
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Why am I getting "invalid max count" from grep in an alias?
So the idea is to create an alias that will search my alias's for me. I have quite a few.
dude@gnarleybox:~$ grep alg .bash_aliases.sh
alias alg='alias | grep '
dude@gnarleybox:~$ alias | grep alg
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How can I use grep to search for lines that start with a certain character in bash
I want an alias ('ggg') that will look through my existing set of aliases and tell me all the ones that begin with g. I have a lot of g* aliases :)
I tried this: alias ggg='alias | grep ^g' but didn'...
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A problem with find and grep
I have defined the following alias in ~/.bashrc:
alias fg='find . -name $1 | xargs grep --color $2'
in order to write
fg "*.txt" " my_text "
and find all file that have extension .txt and contain "...
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