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Print ONLY the last line after a match with awk
If sed is an option
$ sed -En '/Artifacts were created:/{n;s/[^ ]* (.*)/\1/p}' <<< "$file"
build-1.tar.gz
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Print ONLY the last line after a match with awk
Please try:
awk '/Artifacts were created:/{p=1} NF{out=$2} END{if(p==1){print out}}' infile
Although the pipe you presented is extracting the second filed of the line just following the match, not ...
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Print ONLY the last line after a match with awk
The original requirement asked for a value from the last non-whitespace line after a match. Here, when you find a match trigger, set a flag. When the flag is set wait for the end of file and then ...
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How to search file name just created by some one on Linux server
If you want today as in after midnight, this should work (not DST safe!):
find /path/to/directory -name \*.tar -mmin "-$(( $(date "+10#%H * 60 + 10#%M") ))"
The time calculation ...
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Bash Function Grep Mod
In bash and sh "$@" will expand all positional parameters so:
cgrep () {
clear
clear
grep "$@"
}
Note that $@ has to be double quoted to prevent word splitting, globbing, ...
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AWK or grep with cut. Need help cutting a field
awk can do what grep and cut do, and awk is more flexible by default than cut about its field separators
awk '/^2014-/ {print $3}' filename
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AWK or grep with cut. Need help cutting a field
I believe your problem is that you have a whitespace after - and before f:
grep '^2014-' FileName | cut - f 3| less
^ here
It should be:
grep '^2014-' FileName | cut -f ...
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Determine whether strings in file exist or not in file hierarchy
The -l option will generally print the files' names matching the search term(s). The -r option will allow grep to also go inside each directory found. An option of -f will tell grep that what is given ...
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Validating only four digits using SED
I find it much harder to understand sed speak. I prefer awk for most things.
Given that, one solution to your problem is the following script which, as you can see, can make the logic more explicit ...
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Inverse grep does not find all matching lines
With the pattern files
$ od -bc shortlong
0000000 167 150 157 012 167 150 157 163 145 012
w h o \n w h o s e \n
0000012
$ od -bc longshort
0000000 167 150 157 163 145 ...
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grep $? -ne 0 breaks script
The main issue with your code is a missing $ in the test ({gret} should be ${gret}, or better yet, "$gret"), and that you never assign the exit status of grep to the gret variable (which is ...
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Extract all subnets from its first common octet
Print each line where the first dot-separated field is 1:
awk -F. '$1=="1" {print}' datafile
Since each line of an awk script is condition {action}, and either part can be omitted for a ...
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Extract all subnets from its first common octet
This will do what you want:
grep '^1\.' filename
The ^ symbol indicates the beginning of the line, and \. means literal dot.
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List all the words starting with $ symbol
The problem is that \b is a zero-width boundary between a word-char and a non-word char. $ is not a word-char
You probably need:
grep -Po '(?<=^|\W)\$\w+' /var/www/html/my_site/index.php
which ...
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How to match end of last string in file which does not end with punctuation
This could be done with GNU sed and both the option to treat a file list as separate files and the command F to print filename.
$ sed -sn '${s/.*\(.\)$/\1/;/[^[:punct:]]/{F;l}}' ./*
./fileone
a$
./...
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Arranging the lines in required order
You can always use a decorate-sort-undecorate approach where you assign -2 to t, -1 to b with:
<your-file awk -F'[<>]' '
{print $2 == "t" ? -2 : $2 == "b" ? -1 : $2, $0}'...
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How to match end of last string in file which does not end with punctuation
This may be what you're trying to do, using GNU awk for ENDFILE:
awk 'ENDFILE {
if ( FNR ) {
c = substr($0,length(),1)
if ( c !~ /[[:punct:]]/ ) {
print FILENAME, c
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Arranging the lines in required order
There may be other ways, but the best way I can think to do this involves using multiple commands, which you can do with a small script.
The script here first gets all lines with <t>, then gets ...
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How to match end of last string in file which does not end with punctuation
In case you need to find file contents ending without punctuation:
for f in ./* ; do tail -n 1 "$f" | grep -qv '[^[:punct:]]$' || echo "$f" ; done
In case you need to find ...
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How to use sed, grep, or awk to keep certain lines in a file depending on line numbers in another file
in case the target line numbers in File2 are in increasing order, to this approach will do.
sed -e 's/$/b/;$a d' < File2 |
sed -f - File1
Generates a series of sed commands
1b
4b
d
In the ...
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Why does this regular expression match odd files?
An optional match like (ccdd)? is exactly that: optional.
It could happen that the matched text is empty, but still, that is a match, a line that has a match.
$ ls -x
aa aaaa aabb aabbaa ...
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Why does this regular expression match odd files?
grep isn't matching the files like errsort .... it's matching the line, and the only thing it actually matches is the (aa) (everything else is optional because of the ?). Because you chose ls -x the ...
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