

Grep is a terrific tool to have at your disposal.
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RELATED: How to Use Pipes on Linux grep: Less a Command, More of an Ally We get a sorted listing of all the files modified in August (regardless of year), in ascending order of file size. area) has put together a handy one-page cheat sheet of all of the text and GREP metacharacters you can use in a Find/Change operation and made it available to any InDesign user. sort +4n: Sort the output from grep on the fourth column (filesize). InDesign trainer extraordinaire and all-around nice guy Mike Witherell (owner of JetSet Communications in the D.C.Note that this would also find files that have “Aug” in their names. grep “Aug”: Select the lines from the ls listing that have “Aug” in them.ls -l: Perform a long format listing of the files using ls.We’re listing the files in the current directory, selecting those with the string “Aug” in them, and sorting them by file size: ls -l | grep "Aug" | sort +4n

finding all lines containing occurrences of any of four strings: grep -F. With the next command, we’re piping the output from ls into grep and piping the output from grep into sort. NAME grep, egrep, fgrep - search a file for a pattern SYNOPSIS Plain call with. Practically all of the lines within the log file will contain spaces, but we’re going to search for lines that have a space as their first character: grep "^ " geek-1.log The “^” regular expression operator matches the start of a line. We can force grep to only display matches that are either at the start or the end of a line. The -L (files without match) option does just that. The file names are listed, not the matching lines.Īnd of course, we can look for files that don’t contain the search term.
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To find out which C source code files contain references to the sl.h header file, use this command: grep -l "sl.h" *.c To see the names of the files that contain the search term, use the -l (files with match) option. grep -B 3 -x "20-Jan-06 15:24:35" geek-1.logĪnd to include lines from before and after the matching line use the -C (context) option. To see some lines from before the matching line, use the -B (context before) option.
