Tag Archives: grep
Finding a string through your source codes
Not sure if the title is accurate but what I really wanted to say is to find a certain string, which file and which line within your project directory no matter how deep the directory level is. This is extremely … Continue reading
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Tagged find, find string, grep, pattern matching, quick find, regex, regex find, search, search source code, search string
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Creating shortcut for finding installed Slackware packages
Lazy I am so I created a shortcut for checking if a package is installed in Slackware. Packages are listed on /var/log/packages so basically a basic ls | grep combo is needed to see if a package is already installed. … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Slackware
Tagged find package, grep, ls, package, script, search package, slackware package
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Log parsing – grep, cat, zgrep and zcat
More on log parsing, I’m taking notes on how to read log files and get the information that I need. On Linux environment, these tools are perfect: grep, cat, zgrep and zcat. Extracting patterns with grep We can extract information … Continue reading




