Questions tagged [filter]
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xupnpd2 mediaserver filter log-messages
I use the xupnpd2 media server (https://github.com/clark15b/xupnpd2) on the router to stream a few HLS streams to the TV. The software would have to be extended by HTTPS and the HLS processing adapted ...
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Filtering find output to find only the real source files?
I have a big directory tree with sources files (*.c), where some, (but not all), of which are actually generated via a preprocess which produces the whatever.c from a whatever.qc file.
Often, I find ...
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awk filtering one column log file
I'm trying to use the following command to extract a time period forthe current day date and grep for the specific message as you can see below:
awk -v date="$(date +%Y%m%d')" '$1="date" && $...
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rsync: Use filters to exclude top-level directory but include some of its subdirectories
I want to back up my /home directory with rsync. I have read rsync's man page and decided to use filter rules for this task.
What I would like to achieve: Exclude all files and directories in the ...
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procmailrc-Killfile for recipient addresses?
I want to block mails with certain recipient addresses using procmailrc (temporary addresses that now only receive spam).
I found a code sample for using a killfile/blacklist, but it only applies to ...
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Replicate directory structure applying a command to each file instead of simply copying it?
Over time, I've encountered the same pattern again and again: I have some kind of directory structure:
example/
├── a
│ └── c
│ ├── d.txt (120k)
│ └── e.txt (60k)
└── b
└── f.txt (...
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Filter output / print one record per event or time period
I've got a custom HID device which prints out exact coordinates of touched points at real time.
It is very sensitive & currently printing out the coordinate that's being touched on multiple ...
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Filter files by string timestamp in filename
I've got a folder with several thousand files with names like ousjgforuigor-TIMESTAMP.txt
The timestamp is a standard Unix timestamp (e.g. 1543932635). Is there an easy way to list only files with a ...
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jq: colorize selected field of json file [closed]
Extend of this question: jq: parse json file with constraint from other field
After select "name" field I'd like to colorize it:
{
"checksum": "9e44bb7b76d8c39c45420dd2158a4521",
"roots": {
...
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jq: parse json file with constraint from other field [duplicate]
Extend of this question: How to combine strings from JSON values, keeping only part of the string?
Above link's output also include the "name" of folder type, need to exclude these "type":
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How to combine strings from JSON values, keeping only part of the string?
I have sample:
"name": "The title of website",
"sync_transaction_version": "1",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://url_of_website"
I want to get the following ...
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Filter on html tag
With html bookmark saved from chrome or others, frequently exported as html file that comes with <a href tag that I'd like to filter and arrange:
<a href="https://<a-web-site>">Title ...
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What is the correct syntax for rsyslog's re_match()?
I'm trying to filter unwanted messages from a cron job (systemd) from rsyslog output. However rsyslog always complains about the second argument of re_match(). The filter rule I have is:
if $...
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htop - See/Filter all the instances of a binary
I have a binary that I will be running multiple times in parallel, each instance executed with different input from the command line.
I wanted htop to list only these processes so that I can compare ...
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Bypass some domains in exim $message_body if condition
I have a custom exim email filter, sample of which is shown below.
Just trying to work out how to bypass the "$message_body contains" part of my filter for specific sender domain names such as ".com" ...
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Filter top(1) display by COMMAND=abc OR COMMAND=xyz
I'm experimenting with the top(1) program, and I'm trying to figure out how to display only specified program names. For example, if I invoke a command line like
$ ssh localhost sleep 15
I'd like to ...
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Filter the below text using shell commands
I am able to get the file difference using git diff command and I got it filtered like below:
-This folder contains common database scripts.
+This folder contains common database scripts.
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Would GREP work to filter a log file based on keywords, dates, timestamps? Or is there a better alternative?
I am trying to filter a log file based on the following:
date range of an error (yyyy-mm-dd)
timestamp range of an error (01:00:00 - 00:00:00)
keywords (previousFireTime, nextFireTime)
I've been ...
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Define udev rule for disk by id or uuid?
I want to define a udev rule for a particular block device (or partition). I currently do it by defining a 91-my-custom-rules.rules configuration file as follows:
computer:/etc/udev/rules.d # cat 91-...
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Using AWK: how to define printing fields to search for rows containing dates ranging between today and 5 days ago?
I'm trying to summarise this list to contain only 5 days worth of data, from today to 5 days ago. I tried using awk but to no avail. There is no need to stick to awk too. This is the output:
This is ...
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How can I list default lpr filters?
I can discard lpr default filters using the -l (or -o raw) option. But how can I list them ?
(FWIW I'm using lpr from cups-client 1:2.2.6-15.fc28, Fedora.)
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How to filter ranges of IP addresses?
How could I filter a single IP address or a range of IP addresses to prevent them from accessing my computer?
Examples:
Block 31.13.76.102
Block from 216.58.192.0 to 216.58.223.255
Block from 173....
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Supress specific output lines of a command
I wanted to search all the files starting with chrom in /var directory. So I executed this
$ ls -R | grep "^chrom"
To my astonishment, It showed this. Few starting lines look like this :
amit@...
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Global filter on clipboard?
I'd like to make kind of filter for clipboard to remove newline characters at the end from anything I copy-paste on a daily basis. I know I could set a daemon listening through xclip for changes and ...
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Holding a Packet
I am trying to alter a stream of packets by temporarily holding a specific packet.
For example, if the packet are numbered 1,2,3,4,5, and so on, I want to temporarily store packet 2 so that I can ...
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Write scripts as stream-filters or parameter-only tools? [closed]
I'm writing a set of shell helper scripts - a kind of toolbox for simple data/text_files processing.
In it there will be some simple tools like, for example: dateToTimestamp or showParagraphHeads.
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Why is column adding a newline in the middle of my row where one is not present in the original data?
I'm analyzing some packetfilter logs and wanted to make a nice table of some output, which normally works fine when I use column -t. I can't use a tab as my output field separator (OFS) in this case ...
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Filter directories from list of files and directories
I have a file containing full path names of files an directories.
From this list I would like to filter out any pathnames that reference directories so that I am left with a list containing only file ...
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bash filter the file names by regex or similar in a while loop
Currently I have the following bash script that gets the width and height of all the files in the directory:
ls | cat -n | while read n f; do
width=$(identify -format "%w" "$f")
height=$(...
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Easy way to filter xml files in a visual way
I am dealing with datasets on xml files; which have the following structure:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<exper>
<entry>
<Source />
<Status>pass</...
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less: multiple filter conditions with AND
How to specify multiple filter conditions connected with AND in less?
I would like to filter a log having lines do NOT contain "nat" but contains an IP address 192.168.1.1, like:
&/!nat &&...
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Filter rows with a specific header name and containing “1” in a column
I have a big file with many columns and rows, looks like:
A B C D E F1 F2 F3 F4 F5
a1 b1 c1 d1 e1 0 0 1 0 1
a2 b2 c2 d2 e2 1 0 0 1 1
a3 b3 c3 d3 e3 1 1 0 0 1
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pf, alf, kext order of operation in os x
What is the order of operation for the packet filter, application layer firewall and 3rd party kexts and applications like Little Snitch, Handsoff, Radio Silence, Vallum in OS X? That is in both ...
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Does SO_ATTACH_FILTER reset the socket's receive buffer?
If a filter is already set and there are unprocessed packets in the sockets receive buffer will calling SO_ATTACH_FILTER to set a new updated filter flush the buffer, i.e is it the same as BSD's ...
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how to enable info layer in syslog?
syslog usually filter out output trace messages with predefined tag types like: dbg, info, note, warn, err, crit, alert, emerg, etc.
What is the proper way to enable/disable syslog filtering during ...
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How do you deal with FreeBSD's periodic reports?
Out of the box, every FreeBSD machine sends two e-mails per day to the administrator (root -- usually aliased to someone):
Daily cron output (with status of disks, network interfaces, etc.)
Daily ...
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Grep and filter IP from text file
I had a log file but I want to extract specific ip from the file the log file shown as below
for the logfile i only want to get the first part of IP of every line how every I try command below it ...
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SQUID intercept mode using external authentication and ICAP with adaptation_send_username not working
My goal is to transparently filter HTTP and HTTPS URLs based on a user name that is obtained via an external acl type.
I am running Squid 3.5.23 in intercept mode, after researching, it seems that ...
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tcpdump ip range
I'm using nfsen and I need to apply a filter to get specific ip range and I can't find the syntax. I searched in the doc of nfdump and tcpdump but nothing.
For now the netflows captured provides from ...
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Filter a log file
I tried to filter my log file by the functionality
For example:
195.xx.x.x - - [13/Apr/2017:09:60:xx +0200] "POST /userx/index.php?m=contacts&xxxx...
192.xx.x.x - - [13/Apr/2017:09:45:xx +0200] "...
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filter a log file by request
I try to filter my log file by request. I want to filter all the request(that you can find on the 7th column:/userx/index...) that have (m=xxx and a=xxx) or (m=xxx and doajax=xxx) and only have the ...
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Find path that has specific sub directory
Consider path in a directory structure
/A/B/C/D
/A/B/C/E
/A/B/O/P
now if I want to list all path which has sub directory C in it, then can it be done through grep?
Expected output:
/A/B/C/D
/A/B/C/...
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How to use cache in proxy and filter by content in Centos 7.3 and Freebsd
I have a proxy server running well, but I would like to know how to filter by content, not only a webpage, and then how to use cache.
I am not sure if to use the cache I have to uncomment only a line ...
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List all unique strings in a specific column
I don't know what I have in my huge vcf.gz file that looks like this
CHROM POS ALT 12345
1 345632 T 0/1:4,4:8:99:105,0,106
4 032184 C ...
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remove lines from a vcf.gz file with awk command
I just asked a question about filtering out lines with a specific value in a specific column.
If I now want to delete lines with a specific value in a specific column. How do I do that?
E.g. delete ...
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extract lines with a specific column value with awk command
I would like to extract all lines starting with a 1/1 in "12345" column and put the lines in a new file (-> Newfile.vcf.gz) leaving the first file.vcf.gz intact by using awk command. My file is a file....
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rsyslog7 filter to hostname if no match to regex
So I'm extremely new to rsyslog (recently switch from syslog-ng) and I really like that I can have dynamic filenames... My work has recently started using docker and they're sending a lot of fields in ...
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Filter grep result-set by paths containing folder1/folder2 and trim the current folder path from result-set
I have a grep command like below to search for all .xml files containing given string.
grep -rl 'product_list_toolbar_pager' --include='*.xml' --color=always
Now I am using this command on remote ...
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Is there a interactive filter tool when paging output?
I would like to take the output from a program and interactively filter which lines to pipe to the next command.
ls | interactive-filter | xargs rm
For example, I have a list of files that a ...
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ddwrt to openwrt; blocking a host name or domain based on mac address
I'm a recent convert from ddwrt to openwrt. On ddwrt, I could use the lines below to block the amz address for my firetv. I tried doing this on openwrt, but I can still access the address.
insmod ...
