Re: locales problem / grep question

2003-03-19 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 19 Mar 2003 14:50:18 +(-0800), Vineet Kumar wrote: [...] > > find / ! -fstype nfs -type f | (etc.) > > Wouldn't it be better to make use of find's -prune, something like > > find / -fstype nfs -prune -o -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ... > > The xdev one should be fine though. (also, -mo

Re: locales problem / grep question

2003-03-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Clive Standbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030319 14:27 PST]: > By the way, recursively searching from / will search all files on any network file > systems you have mounted, which can take ages. If this affects you, you could try > something like > > find / -xdev -type f | xargs -r grep -H -e

Re: locales problem / grep question

2003-03-19 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 19 Mar 2003 13:04:59 +(-0500), Matt Price wrote: [...] > if I run emacs -nw, the error doesn't occur, so I asusme the issue is > x-specific. Anyway, though people were sympathetic, no one seemed to > have seen this specific problem before (if it's familiar, help would > still be absolut

Re: locales problem / grep question

2003-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:04:59PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > if I run emacs -nw, the error doesn't occur, so I asusme the issue is > x-specific. Anyway, though people were sympathetic, no one seemed to > have seen this specific problem before (if it's familiar, help would > still be absolutely we

locales problem / grep question

2003-03-19 Thread Matt Price
hi everyone, In an earlier threasd (which since moved on in a different direction) I mentioned this error I've been getting when I try to run some programs, most pressingly emacs: >--- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs .muttrc >No fonts match `-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15' >---

Re: grep question

2002-04-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:31:41AM -0500, dman wrote: > That's kinda tricky. Suppose you left the brackets out. ps would > have given you lines with > ... Thank you dman and all the others. Enjoy your day. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Univers

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:41:08PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said. But > I want to know why. What does the [c] do in this case? Simple: The regexp '[c]ron' matches the string 'cron', but not the string '[c]ron'. > --

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:41:08PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said. But > I want to know why. What does the [c] do in this case? '[abc]' matches any of the characters a, b, and c. '[c]' matches exactly a 'c', so '[c]ron' matches only

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread dman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:41:08PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: | In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said. But | I want to know why. What does the [c] do in this case? | | | 7. Why do people use strange regular expressions on `ps' output? | |

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread Ulf Rompe
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said. > But I want to know why. What does the [c] do in this case? [...] > ps -ef | grep '[c]ron' It defines a character class containig a "c" as it's only member. The expression "[cp]

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread David Z Maze
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said. > But I want to know why. What does the [c] do in this case? > > > 7. Why do people use strange regular expressions on `ps' output? > > ps -ef | grep

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:41:08PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said. But > I want to know why. What does the [c] do in this case? It tells grep to find four character words that start with the letter 'c' and end with the three letters

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
The [c], I believe, is a character class containing only the letter c. If you wanted to match "cron" or "tron" you could use '[ct]ron'. In this case, the only effect is that the ps output for the grep process won't match its own pattern, so you don't get the spurious item. ap ---

grep question

2002-04-08 Thread Johann Spies
In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said. But I want to know why. What does the [c] do in this case? 7. Why do people use strange regular expressions on `ps' output? ps -ef | grep '[c]ron' If the pattern had been written without

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 16:13]: > When searching only a single directory, without its subdirectories, you > probably don't really need find; it would do as well in most cases just > to redirect grep's stderr to /dev/null, like this: > >grep "pattern to seach for" files 2>/d

Re: a grep question [and now an ftp perm ?]

2002-03-05 Thread Oki DZ
justin cunningham wrote: ... I've been reading a linux security book and I believe I recall it saying I'd need to specify an 'unmask' (not sure the spelling here) and subtract bits from 777 to lock down the user's access but that books at home :( There are many ways of doing things in Linux (as

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Cook
Michael Jinks wrote: [snip] > find /path/to/cgi-bin -type f -exec grep '10.0.0.1' {} \; If I were doing it this way I would use: find /path/to/cgi-bin -type f -exec grep -H '10.0.0.1' {} \; or find /path/to/cgi-bin -type f -exec grep '10.0.0.1' {} \; -print so you know which files the matches

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 03:52 pm, justin cunningham wrote: > I want to search for the 10.ip in the files from > the site's root directory. cd to the root directory and type: grep -r 'your grep search term here' ./* the '-r' flag tells grep to search directories recursively. --kurt

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:52:44PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote: > Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an > ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep > options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? > > Conversely i can go into /site.com/

RE: a grep question [and now an ftp perm ?]

2002-03-05 Thread justin cunningham
27; (not sure the spelling here) and subtract bits from 777 to lock down the user's access but that books at home :( justin -Original Message- From: Michael Jinks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread DvB
"justin cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an > ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep > options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? > > Conversely i can go into /site.com/cgi-bin then cat a

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin justin cunningham quotation: > Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an > ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep > options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? Hard to be sure, since you haven't shown us the command line you're

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Pete Harlan
Well since you don't show what command you actually typed, it's hard to tell you what you did wrong. But this might give you what you're looking for: find /etc -type f | xargs grep -H '10\.' where /etc is the root of whatever tree you want, obviously, and "-type f" tells find to only lis

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Jinks
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:52:44PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote: > Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an > ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep > options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? We don't know unless you show us the pr

a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread justin cunningham
Hi, I read through man on find and grep and am trying to search for an ip in some files contained in folders but every time I type in grep options it just hangs. What am I doing wrong? Conversely i can go into /site.com/cgi-bin then cat any.cgi | grep 10.0.0.1 and will get the desired result bu