I also found one more way of utilizing GREP like functionality in Windows 7 and above without any extra application to install and on older systems you can use install Powershell. In Powershell, User can use Where-Object it has quite comprehensive set of feature that provides all the functionality of GREP plus more. Hope It helps.
I need to recursively search for a specified string within all files and subdirectories within a directory and replace this string with another string. I know that the command to find it might look like this: But how can I replace every instance of string_to_find with another string?
When using nohup and you put the task in the background, the background operator (&) will give you the PID at the command prompt. If your plan is to manually manage the process, you can save that PID and use it later to kill the process if needed, via kill PID or kill -9 PID (if you need to force kill). … Read more
You need to use find instead of grep in this case. You can also use find in combination with grep or egrep:
You’ve already got a working answer but just in case you are curious what was wrong with your original approach, the answer is that you need parentheses around your alternation otherwise the (\.|$) is only required if the number is less than 200.
grep -v is your friend: -v, –invert-match select non-matching lines Also check out the related -L (the complement of -l). -L, –files-without-match only print FILE names containing no match
Try: or for short. This is equivalent to –binary-files=text and it should show the matches in binary files.
The ‘git branch -d’ subcommand can delete more than one branch. So, simplifying @sblom’s answer but adding a critical xargs: or, further simplified to: Importantly, as noted by @adminndrewC, using git branch for scripting is discouraged. To avoid it use something like: Caution warranted on deletes!
From man grep: -a, –text Process a binary file as if it were text; this is equivalent to the –binary-files=text option. –binary-files=TYPE If the first few bytes of a file indicate that the file contains binary data, assume that the file is of type TYPE. By default, TYPE is binary, and grep normally outputs either a … Read more
The asterisk is just a repetition operator, but you need to tell it what you repeat. /*abc*/ matches a string containing ab and zero or more c’s (because the second * is on the c; the first is meaningless because there’s nothing for it to repeat). If you want to match anything, you need to say .* — the dot … Read more