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Return list using git diff and grep
I'm using git diff to return the file names of files recently changed and i'm trying to pipe the returned file names into a grep expression that searches each file and returns the files that have &...
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create a directory for every file and generate "n" copies for each file
while I was looking for a solution for my files, I found something that is perfect, I include the answer here:
How do I create a directory for every file in a parent directory
but now, my problem is ...
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Trying to move words from dictionary using grep command to append .txt file [closed]
Doing a project going for extra credit by making script to do work for me instead of me typing in commands over and over.
I need to move several words from a file. Not just the words, but words ...
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Using the grep command with an array of words
I've got a text file with some lines and saved the text file into an array using
readarray -t array < Textfile
The Text file contains e.g. the following:
123
456
789
Now I'd like to use the grep ...
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while reading lines from a file, need to print the previous line if matches found to given string using bash script
I have a file say file.txt and contents looks like below with more than 10000 lines.
Wed May 27 15:41:29 PDT 2020
Entering directory : /aaa/bbb/ccc
Wed May 27 15:42:30 PDT 2020
Entering ...
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Bash if based on grep result gives "too many arguments" error?
So I am trying to tell if the machine has a battery, then run different commands based on whether or not it does. Here's what I have so far:
upower -d >> /tmp/batstat
if [ grep -F BAT0 /tmp/...
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Search a string in files in the current directory, omit duplicates
Assuming I want to write a line which prints out lines which match a specific string without repeating duplicate lines .. I want to search for this string in the files of the current directory:
grep ...
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remove files based upon diff of two text files
I have created two .txt files that look like:
5fba026dcf271c6fa174b9fc2fc1fefadf1370f9 ./.changeFiles/change/addImage1.change
bb352fba5807f4d03ea11abb00e411b00ce38673 ./.changeFiles/change/...
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How to count occurrences of all the words in all the files of a directory using grep? But with count incremented only once per word per file
I have already asked a similar question but people misunderstood what i was asking. I was asking how to generate a list of every word with a word count incremented only once per word per file.
For ...
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Extract csv files from path to multiple files in bash
I have a files multiple file path for backup purpose ,now i want to filter it based on ".csv " fromat. I have tried this.
filesall=(/home/abc/allfiles/*)
files=$((${filesall[@]}|grep -F ".csv"))
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Number of files containing a given string
How can I count the number of files (in a directory) containing a given string as input in bash/sh?
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