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How can I "grep" patterns across multiple lines?

It seems I am misusing grep/egrep. I was trying to search for strings in multiple line and could not find a match while I know that what I'm looking for should match. Originally I thought that my regexes were wrong but I eventually read that these…
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List the files containing a particular word in their text

I would like to list the files recursively and uniquely that contain the given word. Example: Checking for word 'check', I normal do is a grep $ grep check * -R But as there are many occurrence of this word, I get a lot of output. So I just need…
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How can I search in vim for a pattern that is NOT case sensitive?

I occasionally search through files in vim or less using / or ? but as far as I can tell, the search patterns are case sensitive. So for example, /foo won't find the same things that /FOO will. Is there an way way to make it less strict? How can…
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Find font file from font name on Linux

I have a font with the name Media Gothic. How can I find the file name of that font in Linux? I need to copy that file to another system. I've tried: find /usr/share/fonts/ -name '*media*' But this gives no results. gothic gives some other fonts.…
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List all files in a directory recursively but exclude directories themselves

Simple question, I'm running the following find command: find . -type d \( -path ./.git -o \ -path ./log -o \ -path ./public -o \ -path ./tmp \) \ -prune -o …
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How to search for video files on Ubuntu?

I had downloaded a video a few months back. I'm not very well remembering the name by which it is saved. Is there any command or any method that will output only video files so that I can search for my video there? From man pages, I couldn't find…
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find all end subdirectories in a tree

given the following structure: oz123@debian:~/ $ tree . . ├── a │ ├── a1 │ ├── a2 │ └── a3 ├── a1 │ ├── a11 │ ├── a12 │ └── a31 ├── b │ └── b1 │ ├── b11 │ │ └── b21 │ │ └── b31 │ ├── b12 │ └──…
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Get list of all files by mask in terminal

I want to find all *.h,*.cpp files in folders with defined mask, like */trunk/src*. So, I can find separately *.h and *.cpp files: find . -path "*/trunk/src/*.h" find . -path "*/trunk/src/*.cpp" What is the best way to get the file-list both of…
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Why is the command "find | grep 'filename'" so much slower than " find 'filename' "?

I tried both commands and the command find | grep 'filename' is many many times slower than the simple find 'filename' command. What would be a proper explanation for this behavior?
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Trying to use `pwd` inside an alias giving unexpected results

If I want to search a file in the system I use the following command: sudo find `pwd` -name filename.ext I want to make an alias for an easier word like search, so I used the command: alias search "find `pwd` -name " The problem is that the…
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Search and Delete duplicate files with different names

I have a large music collection stored on my hard drive; and browsing through it, I found that I have a lot of duplicate files in some album directories. Usually the duplicates exist alongside the original in the same directory. Usually the format…
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Remove unknown unicode character from textfiles - sed, other bash/shell methods

I need to search and replace all occurences of an unknown character in some files having the same name. Opening such files with vi, I read <91> code for that character. Opening them with nano, I read a "question mark" in a diamond (black rhumble). I…
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more less ...skipping... when searching

When I search a file in less or more, it will remove lines and replace them with "skipping". Does anyone know what causes this and/or how to avoid it? After I '/' search a log file using either more or less, I see this: crw-rw-rw- 1 root …
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How to find files with a certain subpath?

I need to find all xml-files that are placed in folders named config. Also config must be somewhere under a folder named trunk. For example, I am interested in all files like…
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Search for special characters using grep

I want to search for the lines that contains any of the following characters: : / / ? # [ ] @ ! $ & ' ( ) * + , ; = %
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