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How to Limit the File Size of Files Searched by ag

`ag` (The Silver Searcher) is a fast, text-searching tool often used as a replacement for `grep`. It doesn't natively provide an option to limit the file size of files it searches through. However, you can use a combination of `ag` with other command-line tools to achieve this: 1. **Using `find` and `xargs`**:    You can use `find` to locate files under a certain size and then pipe the file list to `ag` for searching.    For example, to search for files with a size less than 1MB (1,048,576 bytes) and then use `ag` to search within them, you can use:    ```bash    find /path/to/search -type f -size -1048576c -exec ag 'search_term' {} \;    ```    - `/path/to/search` should be replaced with the directory where you want to start the search.    - `search_term` is the term you're looking for. 2. **Using `grep` with `find` and `xargs`**:    You can also use `grep` to search within files after filtering them by size using `find`. Here's an example:    ```bash    find /path

How to remove entire string that match specific pattern in unix txt file with a single command line

 To remove entire lines in a text file that match a specific pattern using a single command line in Unix, you can use the `grep` command in combination with the `-v` option (which excludes lines that match the pattern) and the `-F` option (which treats the pattern as a fixed string, not a regular expression). Here's the command: ```bash grep -v -F 'pattern' input.txt > output.txt ``` - Replace `'pattern'` with the specific pattern you want to match and remove. - `input.txt` is the name of the input file. - `output.txt` is the name of the output file where the lines without the matching pattern will be saved. You can use the same file name to overwrite the input file, or specify a different output file if you want to keep a backup. For example, if you want to remove all lines in the file `input.txt` that contain the string "example," you can use the following command: ```bash grep -v -F 'example' input.txt > output.txt ``` This will create a n