grep will not work with a variable?

Keith Christian keithchristian@yahoo.com
Thu Mar 29 20:32:00 GMT 2007


Kevin Markle wrote:
> Keith Christian brought next idea :
> 
>> Kevin Markle wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to find a pattern in a file and the command works if I 
>>> manully put the output of the variable in it but when I use the 
>>> variable it fails? I have tryed with quotes "$CLIENT" and without. I 
>>> don't know what else to try? :-(
>>
>>
>> echo "Client variable is --> \"${CLIENT}\""  ;  grep "${CLIENT}" foo.txt
>>
>> What does that tell you?
>>
>> ========Keith
> 
> 
> I tryed adding a cd to the directory that I was attempting to grep from 
> and that worked? This is okay because is worked but it would be nice to 
> not have to so that...


Ok, suppose foo.txt is in /home/fflintstone/foo.txt, then:

echo "Client variable is --> \"${CLIENT}\""  ;  grep "${CLIENT}" /home/fflintstone/foo.txt

=======Keith

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