Regular expressions are a means of matching a pattern of characters within a string.
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rsync certain files, excluding the rest, ignoring .svn/ directory, recursively
I'm using rsync to copy some files from a share to another.
Recursively, I need to:
Delete files at destination that were removed from the origin
Only sync php and js files
Exclude every other file ...
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How to find files with a certain subpath?
I need to find all xml-files that are placed in folders named config. Also config must be somewhere under a folder named trunk. For example, I am interested in all files like below:
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How to ask for specific parameters with grep?
I need to look in /usr/share/dict/words for a 5-letter word that starts with d or D, followed by a lowercase vowel, and ends with s. I have tried everything but to no avail.
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linux + match IP ADDRESS with 3 octets or with 4 octets
how to match IP address with 4 octets or with 3 octets in one command?
target - match xxx.xxx.xxx or xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ( syntax should fit for Linux and Solaris )
how to merge the following commands ...
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bash - reading user variable into bash script grep
I've tried every possible combination to get this bash script working. It's part of a larger script, and it basically prompts for a username (to check if it exists) and returns the appropriate ...
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Remove string from a particular field using awk/sed
I have a file (>80,000 lines) that looks likes this:
chr1 GTF2GFF chromosome 1 249213345 . . . ID=chr1;Name=chr1
chr1 GTF2GFF gene 11874 14408 . + . ...
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difference between .* and * in regular Expression
I've a file named "test" that contains
linux
Unixlinux
Linuxunix
it's linux
l...x
now when i use grep '\<l.*x\>' , it matches :
linux
it's linux
l...x
but when i use grep '\<l*x\>' ...
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Trying to remove all ids from an HTML file with grep
I'm trying to remove all id=" "s from an .html file but I'm not sure where I am going wrong. I tried using regular expressions but all I am getting is the .html file rendering in my Ubuntu terminal.
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Trimming one part if equal to another part?
I use an e-mail quote attribution string like this:
On dd mmm yyyy hh:mm +hhmm, from info@example.org (Example Dot Org):
where info@example.org is the sender's e-mail address and Example Dot Org is ...
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(e)grep and atomic grouping [comprehension question]
I am trying to understand the correct use of »atomic grouping« a.k.a. »independent subexpressions« a.k.a. »non-backtracking subpattern« [this are the terms I found ...
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Comment the if statement and the matching endif keyword
In vim, I can find the matching if statement and prepend the appropriate comment symbol. (e.g. %s/.alarm./#\0/g), but then I am left with dangling endifs that I have to find manually. I could simplify ...
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what is “an invisible whitespace character that takes up space”
One can look up Unicode Characters with Regular Expressions. On Jan Goyvaerts website I found a RegExp whose meaning I don't understand :
\p{Zs} or \p{Space_Separator}: a whitespace character that ...
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How to highlight the whole log-line in color with multitail
I'm trying to use multitail to tail logs with color highlights. I defined a custom color scheme in multitail.conf, something like this:
colorscheme:my-color
cs_re:red:^\[E
cs_re:yellow:^\[W
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Delete XML node containing certain element
I want to remove all Placemarks from a KML file that contain the element <tessellate>. The following block should be wholly removed:
<Placemark>
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Regex awk to Cisco Interface
I would like to know if have some Sed/Grep or Awk regex to parse Cisco interface section, with specific attribute, like bellow.
Content of file.txt
!
interface FastEthernet0/1
no ip unreachables
!
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greedy and lazy regular expressions (comprehension question)
I am teaching myself regular expressions, and I got stuck at »greedy« vs. »lazy« repeatings.
What I found out so far is that
»greedy« means that the RegExp ...
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remove duplicate files
On my Mac OS X 10.6.7, iTunes duplicated every single file in my music library. Now I have 3,840 files instead of 1,920. The problem is that iTunes didn't simply duplicate the whole folder, but each ...
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Why is this Bash command using regex not replacing my brackets?
I have this command to go through all my files in my Music directory, and all subdirectories, and replace any square brackets in the file name with rounded brackets:
find /home/Music/ -depth -name "* ...
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Confused about word boundary
I have been researching this a lot, but I am still not clear on it. What does word boundary mean? What does it do?
So, for example, could someone explain this command to me please?
egrep ...
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Regular Expression for finding double characters in Bash
I am looking for a regular expression that finds all occurences of double characters in a text, a listing, etc. on the command line (Bash).
Main Question: Is there a simple way to look for sequences ...
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Regular expression problem(s) in Bash: [^negate] doesn't seem to work
When I execute ls /directory | grep '[^term]' in Bash I get a regular listing, as if the grep command is ignored somehow. I tried the same thing with egrep, I tried to use it with double and single ...
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Check some property for every line of a file
I have several (427 to be precise) text files with a million lines each containing 31 numbers separated be spaces (possible double spaces). However there might be some data corruption and there may be ...
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regex suggestion
echo "223255/12345678 " | grep '[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,"\+]{1,34}'
According to the regex, it can have any of 0-9 a-z A-Z / - ? : ( ) . , " + of upto 34 chars in any order. Am I ...
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Regex and piped commands with sed
I'm finding really hard to use sed command, plus I can't seem to find well written tutorials.
Let me say that I worked with regular expression in other languages (Python, JavaScript, Java), so that ...
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awk, sed, grep, perl… which to print out in this case?
I have this syntax in a file (http response times from analog):
<thead><tr><th class="x">seconds</th><th class="R">reqs</th><th ...
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Regular expressions help
what the different between these two regex expression ?
AB\{4\} and (AB)\{4\}
for the first expression I think that it repeat B 4 times, then for second expression it
repeats AB 4 times. When I ...
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Help with understanding a regular expression
I have this regular expression \\..\\{3\\}$
I want to understand how this expression works to match a string. My thought is that it matches any 8 characters at the end of the line. Is that how this ...
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find command with regex {1,2}
I have been trying to create a find command string that will find all files that end with a number 1-99 but exclude all others.
e.g. I want to find myfile1 myfile99 but not myfile456 and not ...
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exact match in regrex when using vim, man, or less
when using vim, man, or less, I want to do some exact match in regrex
for example, when using man, I want to check the argument '-c'
if I use
/'-c'
the matching could be -cim ...
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How to tell grep to match special character at beginning of each word [duplicate]
I have certain questions regarding grep.
Why does the following command match '<Hello'?
$ grep -E "\<H" test
Hello World
<Hello
H<ello
What needs to be done to match '<Hello' only?
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changing pattern by removing spaces?
file :
hi hello,new york, , ,brazil site ,brazil
january,month is feb , , ,indiana jones
task:
delete all horizontal space (spaces and tab) between any two comas (like , ,) if ...
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grep: invalid content of \{\}
Here's the command :
grep '\(2\)[[:digit:]]\{\1\}' numbers
What I want is to match exactly 2 digits after the digit '2', 3 digits if I change the digit '2' to '3' in my expression, 4 digits if ...
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Recursively edit files based on parent directory's name
I'm facing an issue I'm not quite sure how to overcome. I have a large directory with hundreds of folders, all following the naming scheme "a_b_x", with x being a random word. In every one of these ...
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Doing regex in python [closed]
I had a directory "/pcap_test" which contains several log files. Each file has a pattern like:
Pkt: 1 (358 bytes), LIFE: 1, App: itunes (INTO), State: TERMINATED, Stack: /ETH/IP/UDP/itunes, Error: ...
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regex, only the first occurence
I have a pipelined output from free -o -m | awk '{print $4}' I want take step by step two numbers the first and the second line. So i need two regexes.
I tried with ^[0-9]{1,3}$ but this match all ...
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Regex match in CLI
Is there something like a logical for the cli? I want to achieve this
mv -t newfolder *.(png|jpg)
so that alls jpg and png files are moved into newfolder. I know it could be done with
mv -t ...
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Why does this add spaces? echo “x ax” | sed 's/x\s*/x /'
I want to find a x, and replace the 0 or more following spaces (\s*) with just a single space.
echo "x ax" | sed 's/x\s*/x /'
For some reason, instead of replacing the spaces with the single space, ...
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Pattern matching from the input arguments
we're trying to enhance the scripts.
Users will pass some arguments and part of the arguments will have 5.0.3 For an example the input argument would be like Jboss5.0.3GA. Since it ( Jboss5.0.3GA ) ...
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Regexp in .ssh/config
At work, I often have to log into hosts which follow a common naming scheme, e.g. qc01 - qc12, hc01 - hc10, and so on. All of these need to get the same config values in my laptop's .ssh/config. Of ...
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Find files in multiple folder names
I am trying to list all the files from dir1, dir2, dir3 and dir4 which might be anywhere in as a sub directory of my cwd using the find command. I tried the following with no success:
find . -type f ...
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Match word containing characters beyond a-zA-Z
To match a word one can use
\v(\w+)
From the vim help :h \w:
\w word character: [0-9A-Za-z_]
This works exactly as described in the manual. However, I want to
match words that contain ...
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Meaning of asterisk (*) in grep
[USERNAME@host ~] echo -e 'prdxxx\ndadxxx' | grep "da*xxx"
prdxxx
dadxxx
[USERNAME@host ~] echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
[USERNAME@host ~] dpkg -l | grep -iw bash
ii bash ...
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grep lines starting with “1” in Ubuntu
I try to search for lines that start with "1" using
ls -1 | grep ^1*
but it returns lines that do not start with 1. What I am missing here?
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How to add a line in many files
I have many .html files and I need to add a meta tag after <head>'s start tag in each file.
How I can do that?
Can vim help me?
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How to reverse-match a string in the Vim programming language?
I want to find the last index of any character in the [abc] set in the abcabc string but the search should start from the end of the string:
" Returns the 0th index but I want the 5th.
let ...
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extract last match from logfile till end
Using sed, grep, awk, or ruby, what's a simple way to find the last match of a string in a larger log file, and send every line following it (inclusive) to another file?
Example:
grep -A222 ...
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Regex for phrase matching with case statement in ksh
I am trying to start or stop a service on AIX in ksh.
I am trying to start to build in fool proofing for checking things like if the services is already down, etc.
Here is my script
#!/bin/ksh
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How can I find matches with sed (or similar) for configuration parameters?
I'm pretty good at using php's preg_match (and similar) commands, and I'm also pretty good with regular expressions, but I don't do very well with sed.
I have two shell scripts I'm working on and I'd ...
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What is the difference between [[ $a == z* ]] and [ $a == z* ]?
Is there is any difference between these two.
[[ $a == z* ]]
and
[ $a == z* ]
Can I have an example where they would have different outputs?
Furthermore, how does the working of [[ ]] differs ...
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grep all words with specified length, without letter x
So I am stuck here:
grep -E '^....c...c...$' shows all words with the expr I need. Now from this words I only need the ones that don't have a x.
Who can help me?
