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Commands tagged filter

Terminal - Commands tagged filter - 5 results

tail -f production.log | perl -ne 'if (/^Completed.in.(\d+)/){$d = int($1/1000);print "\n";$f{$d}++;for $t (sort(keys(%f))){print $t."s: ".$f{$t}."\n"}}'

2012-02-23 14:37:33

User: theist

Functions: perl tail

Tags: perl log rails ruby filter tail -f

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filter rails log to count requests sliced in seconds

Commandline perl filter for, using a production.log from a rails app, display on realtime the count of requests grouped by "seconds to complete" (gross round, but fair enough for an oneliner) :)

awk "/<xsd:annotation>/{h=1};!h;/<\/xsd:annotation>/{h=0}" annotatedSchema.xsd

2011-07-15 07:17:17

User: 2chg

Functions: awk

Tags: xml filter

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Remove annotation- (or other own-lined) tags from an XML document

Removes all lines between the lines containing "" and "", including these lines itself

Backdrop:

Sometimes when working with XML files without an graphical editor, large comment-/annotation-blocks taper the readability to walk through the file. I like to create a copy of such documents without these annotations. As the documentation itself is in documentation tags inside the annotation tags an therefore graphical editors tend to put the annotation tags in their own lines, this command removes all documentations within annotation-tags.

rsync -avz --dry-run --include="only-include-this-filename" -f 'hide,! */' source/folder/ target/folder/

2011-03-16 16:10:42

User: cybertoast

Functions: rsync

Tags: rsync filter

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rsync a hierarchy but matching only one filename

Applying filter rules is what makes this a really useful command. It's usually a pain to figure out how to sync ONLY files matching a particular pattern, and often one reverts to goofy stuff like find .. -exec rsync ..

The filter hides all folders from the transfer, so that only the matching folders that store the filename are left for the sync.

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sed '/'"<opening tag>"'/,/'"<closing tag>"'/{/'"<closing tag>"'/d;p};d' "<file>"

2010-11-08 21:43:00

User: DaveQB

Functions: sed

Tags: grep tag filter multiline

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Multi line grep using sed and specifying open/close tags

This line does not include your closing tag in the output.

cat file.txt | sed -e /<opening tag>/d -e /<closing tag>/G | sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;/<string to search>/!d;'

2010-11-04 10:31:15

User: EBAH

Functions: cat sed

Tags: grep tag filter multiline

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Multi line grep using sed and specifying open/close tags

Working with log files that contains variable length messages wrapped between open and close tags it may be useful to filter the messages upon a keyword.

This works fine with GNU sed version 4.2 or higher, so pay attention to some unix distros (solaris, hp-ux, etc.).

Linux should be ok.