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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