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Terminal - Commands using grep - 1,595 results
find . -type f -exec grep -l XXX {} \;|tee /tmp/fileschanged|xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/XXX/YYY/g'
2009-02-16 02:55:23
User: drossman
Functions: find grep perl tee xargs
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Change string in many files at once and more.

Find all files that contain string XXX in them, change the string from XXX to YYY, make a backup copy of the file and save a list of files changed in /tmp/fileschanged.

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ls -F | grep '\''\*'\'' | sed '\''s/\*$//'\
2009-02-16 01:16:49
User: int19h
Functions: grep ls sed
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List all executable files in the current directory
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strings /dev/urandom | grep -o '[[:alnum:]]' | head -n 30 | tr -d '\n'; echo
2009-02-16 00:39:28
User: jbcurtis
Functions: grep head strings tr
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Generate a random password 30 characters long

Find random strings within /dev/urandom. Using grep filter to just Alphanumeric characters, and then print the first 30 and remove all the line feeds.

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dd bs=1 count=32 if=/dev/random 2> /dev/null | md5 | grep -o '\w*'
2009-02-15 23:22:46
User: neW1
Functions: dd grep
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Generate random password
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ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'
2009-02-15 20:43:21
User: unixmonkey842
Functions: grep ls sed
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Graphical tree of sub-directories

Prints a graphical directory tree from your current directory

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du -hs * | grep '^[0-9,]*[MG]' | sort -rn
2009-02-15 17:47:59
User: orie
Functions: du grep sort
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Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

Taken from here: http://linsovet.com/directory-usage-size-sorted-list

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dpkg --list '*linux*' | grep '^ii'
2009-02-13 17:05:37
User: piyo
Functions: grep
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Show one line summaries of all DEB packages installed on Ubuntu based on pattern search

I sometimes want to know what packages are installed on my Ubuntu system. I still haven't figured out how to use aptitude effectively, so this is the next best thing. This allows finding by name.

The grep '^ii' limits the display to only installed packages. If this is not specified, then it includes listing of non-installed packages as well.

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find . -type f -print | xargs grep foo
2009-02-13 12:22:53
User: syndrael
Functions: find grep xargs
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Find 'foo' string inside files
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curl -s http://myip.dk | grep '<title>' | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'
2009-02-13 01:44:12
User: uzi
Functions: grep sed
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display ip address

add this alias in .bashrc to fast check the ip address of your modem router

alias myip="curl -s http://myip.dk | grep '' | sed -e 's/]*>//g'"

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nmap -sT -p 80 -oG - 192.168.1.* | grep open
2009-02-11 17:47:27
User: bendavis78
Functions: grep
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Get list of servers with a specific port open

Change the -p argument for the port number. See "man nmap" for different ways to specify address ranges.

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svn st | grep /main/java | awk '{print $2}' | xargs echo | xargs svn ci -m "my comment here"
2009-02-11 16:31:05
User: Antoine
Functions: awk echo grep xargs
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Commit all the changes in your java code
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FAIL2BAN=`ps ax | grep fail2ban | grep -v grep | awk {'print $1'}` && if [ -n "$FAIL2BAN" ]; then printf "\n[INFO] Fail2Ban is running and the PID is %s\n\n" $FAIL2BAN; else printf "\n [INFO] Fail2Ban is not running\n\n"; fi
2009-02-11 04:36:49
User: fmdlc
Functions: awk grep printf
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Check if Fail2Ban is Running

Check if Fail2Ban is running on the system and alert it with a message in the terminal

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svn st | grep "^\?" | awk "{print \$2}" | xargs rm -rf
2009-02-10 21:15:23
User: l33tminion
Functions: awk grep rm xargs
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delete unversioned files in a checkout from svn
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ps aux | grep [h]ttpd
2009-02-10 02:59:20
User: abcde
Functions: grep ps
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Exclude grep from your grepped output of ps (alias included in description)

Surround the first letter of what you are grepping with square brackets and you won't have to spawn a second instance of grep -v. You could also use an alias like this (albeit with sed):

alias psgrep='ps aux | grep $(echo $1 | sed "s/^\(.\)/[\1]/g")'

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ls -R | grep : | sed -e '\''s/:$//'\'' -e '\''s/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g'\'' -e '\''s/^/ /'\'' -e '\''s/-/|/'\''
2009-02-09 22:32:01
User: scw
Functions: grep ls sed
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Display directory hierarchy listing as a tree

Shows the current directory and those below it in a simple tree structure. Recommended use:

alias lt='$command_above'

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grep -lir "text to find" *
2009-02-09 20:28:21
User: cinan
Functions: grep
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Find files containing "text"

* = where

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grep -r "sampleString" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "/sampleString/d"
2009-02-09 20:21:30
User: sk1418
Functions: cut grep sed xargs
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edit files in current and subdir, remove all lines that containing certain string

checking files in current and sub directories, finding out the files containing "sampleString" and removing the containing lines from the file.

* Beware that The command will update the original file [no backup].

The command can be extended if play with 'find' command together,

e.g. it is possible to execute on certain type of files: *.xml, *.txt... (find -name "*.xml" | grep....)

if anybody knows a better solution on that, please drop a comment. thx.

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find . \( -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cc' \) | xargs grep . | wc -l
2009-02-09 11:44:35
User: dgomes
Functions: find grep wc xargs
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Counts number of lines

Counts number of lines of code in *.h and *.cc files

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alias pfind='ps aux | grep '
2009-02-09 04:13:52
User: Oshuma
Functions: alias grep
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Helpful alias to grep for the PID.
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df -x tmpfs | grep -vE "(gvfs|procbususb|rootfs)"
2009-02-09 01:54:05
User: bones7456
Functions: df grep
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show physical disk using

show physical disk using, except tmpfs, gvfs, and so on.

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ldconfig -p | grep <somenewlib.so>
2009-02-07 23:15:38
User: al3x
Functions: grep ldconfig
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List shared libraries recognized by the system

Allows to check if shared library could be dynamically loaded

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find /path -name \*.php -user nobody -exec grep -nH whatever {} \;
2009-02-07 20:53:56
User: al3x
Functions: find grep
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grep selectively

allows to grep very narrow subset of files

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alias grep 'gnu grep -i --color=auto'
2009-02-07 18:54:56
User: mnikhil
Functions: alias grep
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Use color grep by default

Alias the grep command to show colored results by default.

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alias nsl 'netstat -f inet | grep -v CLOSE_WAIT | cut -c-6,21-94 | tail +2'
2009-02-07 18:54:12
User: mnikhil
Functions: alias cut grep tail
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show all programs connected or listening on a network port

Use the aliased command 'nsl'

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find $(pwd) -type f -exec grep -l "$(echo "\r")" {} \;
2009-02-07 18:53:00
User: mnikhil
Functions: find grep
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finding cr-lf files aka dos files with ^M characters

its useful to run dos2unix command later on them.

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