X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-YMail-OSG: NkZFCZUVM1mrR7ago.IzLL5dt8jqA5A1P3ISSu3IZ2BVpQ3PD4XuU_uldft.D0Bf8a9OtS3mXQ-- Message-ID: <460C223B.60105@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:31:55 -0600 From: Keith Christian User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20070113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: grep will not work with a variable? References: <460C1525.8060305@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/