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How do you get the individual outputs of grep?
As mentioned in comments, grep (a utility for extracting lines from unstructured text documents) is not a tool you want to use for parsing HTML, or structured documents in general. Ideally, you want ...
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grep exact process name in bash script with variable argument
Simply run:
pgrep -fl script.sh
From man pgrep:
pgrep, pkill, pidwait - look up, signal, or wait for processes based on name and other attributes
-f, --full
The pattern is normally only ...
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Select all the text or characters between 2 text patterns that are repeating
This, using GNU awk for multi-char RS, RT, and \s shorthand for [:space:], might be what you're looking for:
$ awk -v RS='\\s*ttt' 'RT && sub(/.*User\s*/,"")' file
abc (iii)
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How do you get the individual outputs of grep?
To add to Kusalananda's answer, if you have more general HTML, you might want to use BeautifulSoup instead of hoping to to convert to XML (not that it doesn't use different XML parsers itself under ...
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Find a string enclosed in spaces or coming from the beginning or end with grep
Try:
grep -w -e -someword
From man grep:
-w, --word-regexp
Select only those lines containing matches that form whole
words. The test is that the matching substring must
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grep exact process name in bash script with variable argument
In shells that support it, you could use the substring expansion to put the brackets in the right places:
name=ffmpeg
ps -ef | grep "[${name:0:1}]${name:1}"
would run grep "[f]fmpeg&...
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