Questions tagged [cat]
cat is a standard Unix utility used for concatenating files or printing specific file on the standard output.
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Display contents of the file searched by grep or find command [closed]
I have lots of directories in a certain directory and I am trying to find a specific file present in there. I used grep command recursively and was able to locate the file being present in there, but ...
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How do I monitor a Socat mounted COM Port device for a specific Char Delimiter?
I have a code like the following:
cat -v -e /dev/tty03 | grep --line-buffered '^F' | while read
do
echo "Line Found"
done
How can I setup a timeout for the above While Loop. I want the "while" ...
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Can't seem to concatenate multiple files in different directories
I'm trying to concatenate multiple files together that are in different directories using the following command:
~$ find . -name ‘*.text’ -exec cat {} >> combined.text \;
However it doesn't ...
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replace/remove text (sed) by a file
I want to replace/remove text all files by a file.
$ echo "_uU_%UHY%^GSSD$%GWRW$T#wf4werwefF$fW#$wfdd%6blahblahblah" > pattern.txt
$ sudo grep -rl "_uU" . | xargs sed -ie s/$(cat pattern.txt)//g
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How to cat named pipe without waiting
If there is nothing in a named pipe and I do:
cat my_named_pipe
it will wait until data arrives. Is there a flag I can use to exit immediately if there is no data to be read? Or perhaps a command ...
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`cat -v` for non-printing non-ascii UTF characters
cat has a -v option which converts non-printing characters to their caret notation (which is useful if we don't want the terminal to interpret the control characters literally in cat output).
But ...
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Pass variable to cat [duplicate]
I have only one variable in bash script ${PHP_V} and trying to pass in nginx config file like:
cat <<'EOF' > /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
server {
listen 80 default_server;
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Display line number in head and tail command like `cat -n`
cat without -n
user@linux:~$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf | head -4
#
# /etc/sysctl.conf - Configuration file for setting system variables
# See /etc/sysctl.d/ for additional system variables.
# See sysctl....
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I am not able to update a variable through sed command
I have assigned two variables but not able to update
x=$(cat /scratch/env.properties | grep ConfigPath)
y=$(ConfigPath=/scratch/a/b)
then sed to replace ConfigPath in env.properties
sed 's/$x/$y/' ...
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What determines whether backspaces show up in a file created with cat?
I just noticed that I've seen different behavior across different systems when creating a quick test file (e.g. with sample input) via cat and redirection.
Here are the steps to see what I'm talking ...
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find n most frequent words in txt file using the terminal but with the cat, “grep .” and tr -d “/r” commands
I would like to find n most common words in a text file but with the following conditions:
cat to get the file.
grep . to get the words.
tr -d '/r' to get rid of new lines.
I've managed to get ...
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create single string argument using heredoc or other technique
I am trying to execute a script on remote servers, passing the script as the last argument
ntrs exec-all-ubuntu --exec `cat << 'EOF'
echo "$(pwd)"
echo "$foobar"
EOF`
The problem is that ...
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How to delete string other than pattern?
I have a m3u file as below. I want to delete all strings except the pattern and next first line. or save the pattern and the next first line as another file.
Patterns group-title="TR ULUSAL" , group-...
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echo strings but extra question mark was added to the output
Strange "?" got added to the filename output.
SCRIPTS="/path_to_script/"
SUMMER=`cat /path_to_file/summer.txt`
for i in ${SUMMER};
do cat <<- EOF > $SCRIPTS/20190430_$(echo ${i})_step4.r
#...
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How I can read content of the ssh key file using a path read from a file?
I need to read content of the ssh key using the given path resides in a file like following:
my ssh private key is: ~/.ssh/firstname.lastname
When I call cat ~/.ssh/firstname.lastname in terminal on ...
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`cat` behaves strangely on a mounted virtio directory
When I'm in a mounted directory (9p) on my gentoo-guest and do the following:
TMPDIR='./foo' # The directory './foo' exists and the name 'TMPDIR' is important
cat <<EOF
hello world
EOF
I get ...
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How to extract lines knowing start and end lines
I have a file with 1 million lines.
I want to extract lines from line 10001 to 500000
How to do this?
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How to display lines in a file like ls displays files in a directory? [duplicate]
I have a long file with short lines (one word) f that I would like to inspect.
It would fit on the screen if it wasn't for the newlines.
If the data was already arranged in columns I could just do ...
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Why use cat to view a file? [closed]
It seems that the purpose of cat is to concatenate several files. However, many people still use cat instead of less (or a similar program like more) to display a file. See, for example, the GNU m4 ...
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Why do cat and more wrap lines differently?
It seems that more adds line breaks, whereas cat does not. As a result cat results will change to fit the terminal window if I resize the window, whereas more results stay put with the line breaks ...
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“nohup cat” — write the complete content to the log file rather to concatenate file
I used the below command
nohup cat fastp-filtered/OZBenth*_R1.fastp.fq.gz > fastp-filtered-merged4racon/merge_R1.fq.gz > merge_R1.out.log 2>&1 &
but unfortunately, the output went ...
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cat shows nothing
My team is working on a CI environment.
A ko file, named x.ko, is always generated from the CI environment at a regular time everyday and its type is ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable.
Today, I found that ...
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How to copy the rest of lines of a file to another file [duplicate]
I have the string xyz which is a line in file1.txt, I want to copy all the lines after xyz in file1.txt to a new file file2.txt. How can I achieve this?
I know about cat command. But how to specify ...
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Is there a quickest way to count lines in file which is of 4TB in linux?
Actually I have 4 TB of Txt file as Exported from Teradata records and I want to know How many records are there in that file.
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Getting awk value and outputting to a file [duplicate]
I need to get a value from a log file which I am getting using awk at the moment. I can get the number printing on the console but when I try to put that value into a new file nothing happens. Here is ...
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insert EOF statement before the last line of file
I want to insert this
cat <<EOF >> /etc/security/limits.conf
* soft nproc 65535
* hard nproc 65535
* soft nofile 65535
* hard ...
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cat shows file contents, gedit and vim show blank file
I was planning on building a current logging device with an Arduino, and tried starting off with the basic SD-card write example from the Arduino IDE sketchbook.
The Serial console showed no errors, ...
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Can't see the contents of a data file in terminal
I have downloaded a number of input files from the NASDAQ website (for example ftp://emi.nasdaq.com/ITCH/01302018.NASDAQ_ITCH50.gz) After decompressing (I double click on a Mac) I can't see the file ...
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Different behaviours of sudo [duplicate]
I created a file with sudo like this:
sudo touch abc.txt
Which understandably set the owner to root. Now when I try to edit the file via vi using sudo, it works:
sudo vi abc.txt #works
But when I ...
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How to merge files in Linux while deleting the source files
I have 2 large files (of about 27 GB each), which I need to merge. They were originally one whole ZIP file, but I split it. The problem with the cat command is that it creates a new file which has the ...
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cat: append a text file in another folder as Dolphin action
How can I append an md-file to another md-file in a subfolder as Dolphin action?
I tried cat %U >> subfolder-name/%u, but I get this error message:
cannot create subfolder-name//path/to/md-...
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Why can I not access a file named `-` when quoting? [duplicate]
I have a file called -.
I want to display its contents.
One way is to do
cat ./-
since cat - reads from standard input. However, why are cat "-" and cat '-' also interpreted by the shell as cat -?
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Combine large amounts of files inside a directory
I have a large amount of files within a single directory, currently 10,804 files. the amount of files can float between 5 and 100,000.
I am looking for a way to combine every 250 separate files into ...
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Merge Lines that start with special Character into new File
the following Situation:
I have about 2000 Files that are named like "dens_Run0_set0.#" where # is some Number and they are filled like this
1 0 1.000000e-01 6.3043370127282594e-01 -9....
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Replace the part of lines in multiple files matching a pattern with lines from another file in order [duplicate]
I want to replace the part of lines matching a pattern from multiple files from the lines in order from another file, i have up to 500 txt files, with structure:
test1.txt, test2.txt, test3.txt...
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Removing control M characters from a given file and to remove newline character if it is the only character in the entire file
We have a file named as abc.txt and its a empty file. Due to some junk or control M characters, the file size is populated as 5 byte file. In order to have clean file we are using dos2unix command to ...
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navigating forward in more pager using f
It is given in the man page of more that f is used to skip forward k screenful of text(default to 1).I saved a very long file using cat and used more to show it on the screen page by page but when i ...
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How to use bash cat * to wrap? [duplicate]
ls /proc/
1 10984 11246 131 144 167 2099 31788 4805 5375 6762 7594 8111 8722 consoles
10 10993 11247 1314 14400 168 21 32 4807 5379 6771 76 8112 ...
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What is the equivalent (programmatically) of cat /dev/something > file.txt [closed]
I'm copying a video from a camera stream using a command cat /dev/video0 > file.mpeg
This works perfectly, however I want too break up the file into smaller chunks... So I've been waiting pressing ...
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Pipe file containing list of images to sxiv and reflect changes immediadly
Suppose I have a file images.txt which contains for example
image1.jpg
image2.jpg
image3.jpg
Then I pipe the images.txt to sxiv and I want that the thumbnail view reflects the changes immediately. ...
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join all text files in subfolders in ubuntu into a single file
I have many folders/subfolders with text files in them.
Is there any way to iterate all of the subfolders and join all the files into a single large file?
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How to let process continue running even after disconnecting ssh?
I have a Linux based router that I’m trying to “control” with a home automation controller. On my automation controller I’m able to utilize a ‘two way strings’ driver to send a string to the Linux ...
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grep and cut text from unstructured file?
From below 3lines I need to grep and cut jar file name only.
How to grep jar name from the line and cut from there.
Downloading:https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-aop/5....
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Need to iterate through subdirectories, concatenating files, with an iterative number
I'm trying to concatenate files from three different subdirectories into one file. The names of the files in each subdirectory are exactly the same. I'd like to use a loop to iterate through the ...
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How to print the first line which include special word [closed]
Print the first 123 below XXX
AAA
BCB
DDD
123
123
XXX
CCC
123
123
MSM
123
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How to echo content into a series of new file generated by cat
I would like to write a loop to generate 22 R scripts with contents generated in echo. What went wrong in this loop that I could not get the 22 files with the corresponding content?
I tested echo "i ...
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What does cat of a tar archive show? [closed]
I was doing a penetration testing capture the flag training exercise and found a file called "backup". I checked the file type of "backup" and saw it was gzip compressed. I decompressed it to a file ...
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How to take number of bytes transmitted and received from /net/proc/dev
I want to take the number of bytes transmitted and received from /proc/net/dev in this format: num_ofbytesTransmitted,num_ofbytesReceived.
This was my approach:
cat /net/proc/dev | grep enp0s3 | cut -...
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How does `cat` work so that it allows reading a file line as an array element? [duplicate]
In bash, we can read an file into an array, so that each line in the file becomes an element of the array.
$ arr=( $(cat myfile) )
I was wonder how cat works so that it allows reading a file line as ...
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How should I output the contents of a file to terminal without using cat? [duplicate]
I've been hearing talk of UUOC, "Useless Use of cat", lately, and it seems like the consensus is that cat should really only be used when concatenating multiple files. This has me wondering, is there ...
