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The document provides instructions for 5 exercises using grep, egrep, fgrep and regular expressions to search text files: 1. Filter ps output to only show processes containing "ssh" 2. Repeat #1 but remove the grep process from results 3. Filter ps output to only show processes containing "[" without regex 4. Filter ps output to only show processes containing two consecutive S characters using egrep 5. Repeat #3 using egrep and grep instead of fgrep

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Exercise: Search Text Files Using Regular Expressions (Using grep, egrep, fgrep
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1. Logged in as user, obtain a full listing of all processes running on the system and filter the results so that only processes that contain the keyword 'ssh' are included in the output
results.

[user@tcox3 redirection]$ ps aux | grep ssh

root 621 0.0 0.0 82508 3600 ? Ss 09:56 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D

user 2452 0.0 0.0 52836 576 ? Ss 09:56 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l /bin/bash
-c "env GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=classic gnome-session --session gnome-classic"

user 3190 0.0 0.0 112640 960 pts/0 R+ 10:08 0:00 grep --color=auto ssh

2. Noticing that the actual command run to display those processes is one of the results, rerun the command from Step #1, but pipe it to another command to filter out the grep
command itself.

[user@tcox3 redirection]$ ps aux | grep ssh | grep -v grep

root 621 0.0 0.0 82508 3600 ? Ss 09:56 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D

user 2452 0.0 0.0 52836 576 ? Ss 09:56 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l /bin/bash
-c "env GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=classic gnome-session --session gnome-classic"

3. Run a command to list all processes, piping the results in order to display only processes that have a '[' (open square bracket character). You want to save cpu cycles so make sure
you are not using a regular expression.

[user@tcox3 redirection]$ ps aux | fgrep [

root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0? S 12:07 0:00

kthreadd]

root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0? S 12:07 0:00

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ksoftirqd/0]

root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0? S< 12:07 0:00

kworker/0:0H]

root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0? S 12:07 0:00

kworker/u30:0]

root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0? S 12:07 0:00

migration/0]

root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0? S 12:07 0:00

rcu_bh]

root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0? S 12:07 0:00

rcuob/0]

root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0? S 12:07 0:00

rcuob/1]

root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0? S 12:07 0:00

rcuob/2]

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root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0? S 12:07 0:00

rcuob/3]

...

4. Once again, run a command listing all processes, but use a command that allows extended regular expressions to display all processes running that contain two consecutive 's'
characters in them.

[user@tcox3 redirection]$ ps aux | egrep ss

dbus 492 0.0 0.0 29764 2840 ? Ss 09:56 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --
nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation

root 621 0.0 0.0 82508 3600 ? Ss 09:56 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D

root 2259 0.0 0.1 373980 5468 ? Sl 09:56 0:00 gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]

user 2267 0.0 0.3 860364 13240 ? Ssl 09:56 0:00 gnome-session --session gnome-classic

user 2275 0.0 0.0 13944 608 ? S 09:56 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session

user 2276 0.0 0.0 29732 1788 ? Ss 09:56 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-
address 6 --session

user 2436 0.0 0.0 143760 284 ? S 09:56 0:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --seamless

user 2437 0.0 0.0 209960 1036 ? Sl 09:56 0:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --seamless

user 2452 0.0 0.0 52836 576 ? Ss 09:56 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l /bin/bash
-c "env GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=classic gnome-session --session gnome-classic"

user 2471 0.0 0.0 28644 1568 ? S 09:56 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-
spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3

user 2475 0.0 0.0 129656 3340 ? Sl 09:56 0:00 /usr/libexec/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-
session

user 2707 0.0 0.3 893084 12992 ? Sl 09:56 0:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory

user 3248 0.0 0.0 112640 960 pts/0 R+ 10:11 0:00 grep -E --color=auto ss

5. Try the other two methods of obtaining the same results in Step #3.

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[user@tcox3 redirection]$ ps aux | egrep s{2}