Aug 30, 2011 · I have data in multiple files. I want to find some text that matches in all files. Can I use the grep command for that? If yes then how?

Mar 25, 2016 · I would like to get the multi pattern match with implicit AND between patterns, i.e. equivalent to running several greps in a sequence: grep pattern1 | grep pattern2 | ... So how to …

69 Assuming that the grep tool should be used, I'd like to search for the text string "800x600" throughout the entire file system. I tried: grep -r 800x600 / but it doesn't work. What I believe my command …

Another simple way is to use grep -c. That outputs (not return as exit code), the number of lines that match the pattern, so 0 if there's no match or 1 or more if there's a match.

Dec 1, 2011 · How can I introduce a conditional OR into grep? Something like, grepping a file's type for (JPEG OR JPG), and then sending only those files into the photos folder. For example. I know how …

The difference between my answer an Mr. Smith's is that the OP asked for how many matches in a sentence/string, and, to the best of my knowledge, the method using grep (as the OP requested) …

Dec 17, 2014 · If I understand you correctly this is what you want to do: find . -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'something' > output.txt Find all files with extension .py, grep only rows that contain …

So pulling open a file with cat and then using grep to get matching lines only gets me so far when I am working with the particular log set that I am dealing with. It need a way to match lines to a

6 I know that grep -L * will do this, but how can I use the find command in combination with grep to exclude files is what I really want to know You could use find and grep like this: find . -type f ! -exec …

By default, grep prints the matching lines. Run following command to get output which you want (ex-chrome): top | grep chrome Here we are using grep with pipelines | so top & grep run parallel ; top …