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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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3answers
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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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2answers
102 views

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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3answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
76 views

Commands with regex support? [closed]

What are they? I know vi grep equery
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1answer
196 views

What does ^> mean in a grep pattern?

What does this command do? grep "<[^>]*>" inuux.xml What is searching for?
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1answer
607 views

What does \bi\b mean in a grep pattern?

What does this command do? grep "\bi\b" linux.txt What is it searching for?
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2answers
328 views

Replace a substring of filenames in a directory

There exists a directory, which includes several levels of sub-directories. Under these directories, there are a set of files whose names include a common word, e.g, .cc. How can I replace the .cc ...
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2answers
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perl regex replacing globally when global not selected

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and wrote a small script that searches within text files for certain "tokens" and replaces with some a prewritten snippet from a template file of the same name. The text files ...
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1answer
510 views

Is there a tool in linux that allows multi-line regex expressions?

I'm wanting to find the results of a multi-line regular expression in linux. I tried grep, but like most linux utilities it's line based. Is there something similar that allows me to search across ...
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1answer
203 views

Easy Regex on Apache Logs

I'm struggling to create a regex for Apache logs. It's for ignoreregex on Fail2ban. I'd really like to be able to put something like /house to catch all files in that directory or ...
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Processing control characters

I have a log file which contains a bunch of non visible control characters such as hex \u0003. I would like to replace this using something like SED, but can't get the first part of the regex to ...