9 Answered Questions for the topic grep
07/27/19
grep regex to ignore comment at end of line?
I'm trying to grep through a lot of old PowerBASIC source files in search of a variable, but I'm having trouble getting `grep` to avoid matching references to the variable in the end-of-line...
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Grep Linux
07/03/19
How can I use grep to show just filenames on Linux?
How can I use `grep` to show just file-names (no in-line matches) on Linux?
I am usually using something like:
find . -iname "*php" -exec grep -H myString {} \\;
How can I just get the...
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How can I format my grep output to show line numbers at the end of the line, and also the hit count?
I'm using grep to match string in a file. Here is an example file:
example one,
example two null,
example three,
example four null,
`grep -i null myfile.txt` returns
example two null,
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How can I exclude directories from grep -R?
I want to traverse all subdirectories, except the "node_modules" directory.
How to 'grep' a continuous stream?
Is that possible to use `grep` on a continuous stream?
What I mean is sort of a `tail -f <file>` command, but with `grep` on the output in order to keep only the lines that interest...
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How to grep a string in a directory and all its subdirectories' files in LINUX?
How to grep a string or a text in a directory and all its subdirectories'files in LINUX ??
How do I grep recursively?
How do I recursively `grep` all directories and subdirectories?
find . | xargs grep "texthere" *
03/14/19
grep, but only certain file extensions?
I am working on writing some scripts to `grep` certain directories, but these directories contain all sorts of file types.
I want to `grep` just `.h` and `.cpp` for now, but maybe a few others in...
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