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Bash, Grep String in File With File Name and Line Number.: "Tests"

The document provides instructions for using the grep command in Bash to search for a string in files and return the file name, line number, and match. It explains that the -r, -n, and -w parameters allow searching recursively, showing line numbers, and finding whole words respectively. Examples are given showing the syntax and output of running grep to search the tests string within files in a src directory.

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Bash, Grep String in File With File Name and Line Number.: "Tests"

The document provides instructions for using the grep command in Bash to search for a string in files and return the file name, line number, and match. It explains that the -r, -n, and -w parameters allow searching recursively, showing line numbers, and finding whole words respectively. Examples are given showing the syntax and output of running grep to search the tests string within files in a src directory.

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Bash, grep string in file with file name

and line number.


Not a very new pro tip, but always very useful.

This command tries to find the input string in the specified files (or all files in a folder
with *).
Here is the break-down of the parameters:

 -r stands for recursive


 -n for showing line numbers
 -w finds whole words

It shows file name, line and match in this order.

grep -rnw "tests" ./src/sicp_clojure/*

./src/sicp_clojure/1_1_exercises.clj:12:; See tests at the bottom.


./src/sicp_clojure/1_1_exercises.clj:162:(t/deftest tests
./src/sicp_clojure/1_1_samples.clj:41:(t/deftest tests

Bash/Shell script quick cheat sheet


SHELL

SCRIPT

TIPS

TESTING

SERVER

VARIABLE

CRONTAB
CHEATSHEET

LINUX

BASH

I don't create enough bash scripts to keep in mind everything. You'll find below what I
need to get back in business :

How to declare a function :


my_function() {
mkdir $1
}
How to call a function with a condition :
[ $zero -eq 0 ] && { my_function "directoryname" ; }
Get the current folder of the current script :
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
Get the dereferenced path (all directory symlinks resolved), do this:
DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
Get the return code of a script :
command param
STATUS_CODE=$?
[ $STATUS_CODE -eq 0 ] && echo "Ok it has worked"
[ $STATUS_CODE -ne 0 ] && echo "Ouch, something bad happened"
Just an other way to write this (but you can do things on several lines) :
[ $STATUS_CODE -eq 0 ] && {
echo "Ok it has worked"
} || {
echo "Ouch, something bad happened"
}
Variable testing :
if [ -z $X ]; then
echo "the variable X is empty"
fi

[ -s $file_path ] && echo "the file exists and is not empty"


Careful : an empty string return true with -s, you should use -z
[ -z $X ] || echo "not empty"

[ -z $X ] && echo "empty" || echo "not empty"


Remove * except file :
rm !(file)
rm !(file1|file2)
For loop
for file in `ls`
do
echo file
done
Iterative loop
for VARIABLE in 1 2 3 4 5 .. N
do
command1
command2
commandN
done
Remove or replace a string
ok = "smting.mp3"
echo ${ok//.mp3} #return "somting"
Read a file line by line
while read line
do
command "${line}"
done < file.xt

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