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Output to stdout and at the same time grep into a file

I have a script that outputs text to stdout. I want to see all this output in my terminal, and at the same time I want to filter some lines and save them in a file. Example: $ myscript Line A Line B ...
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ps | grep shows bad output in subshell with jobs running in the background

I am using bash. I have a file named "a2draw" that contains only 1 line: sleep 99999 I start it using this command: bash a2draw & Now, I know and understand the trick with square bracket ...
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How do I use tee to redirect to grep

I don't have much experience of using tee, so I hope this is not very basic. After viewing one of the answers to this question I came across a strange beheviour with tee. In order for me to output ...
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Use command grep and locate

How I can make the grep command locate certain words in the files specified by the routes found by the locate command? locate my.cnf | grep user (I want that grep command search the word "user" ...
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Why piping find and grep returns nothing?

I'm trying to have grep search inside specified files that are returned by find: find . -type d -name 'mydir*' -exec find '{}' -name '*.java' \; | grep 'MyClass' This doesn't work. Meanwhile, ...
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Pipe find into grep -v

I'm trying to find all files that are of a certain type and do not contain a certain string. I am trying to go about it by piping find to grep -v example: find -type f -name '*.java' | xargs grep -v ...
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Is there any other way to use tail -f for grep -q && operation?

I found this solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7178888/grep-q-not-exiting-with-tail-f but is there any other possible? UPD: I want to do tail -f | grep -q something && echo ...
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ls outputs multiple columns even if piped to grep with grml's zsh config

I just decided to give zsh a go against Bash and came across some unhandy behaviour about which I couldn't find anything on the net: If you do a ls | grep foo in Bash, the ls only contains one file ...
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grep piping into sed, replacing inline; but I want sed to print the filename and changed line. Is it possible?

Here's my command (break intentional): grep FOO "/Users/gjtorikian/blah" -l | xargs sed -i '' '/FOO/{s/FOO/BAR/g; w /dev/stdout }' At the high-level: grep for FOO in the blah directory; pipe in ...
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Egrep: contains and does not contain

egrep -i '12-12.*\swarning' log.file | cless The above will produce two lines with the date 12-12, followed by random characters, a white space, then Warning and more text. 2011-12-12 textetc ...
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How can I retain the console input in mplayer when reading from stdin?

I'm playing around with the command line interface of mplayer. I'd like to script it in the following way find /some/path/ -type f | grep -vif blacklist | mplayer -shuffle -playlist - where ...
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How do I pass a list of files to grep

I am using find and getting a list of files I want to grep through. How do I pipe that list to grep?
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How to feed the results of date command into grep to filter results of another command

I need to use the result of a formatted date command (date +"%m/%d") as the grep filter to filter the results of another command that will display alerts on a system so that I only see alerts from the ...