X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Kevin Markle Subject: Re: grep will not work with a variable? Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:12:03 -0400 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <20070329193513.GA4906@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> <20070329201009.GB4906@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> Reply-To: kmarkle@pbs.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 It happens that Gary Johnson formulated : > On 2007-03-29, Kevin Markle wrote: >> Gary Johnson used his keyboard to write : >>> On 2007-03-29, 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 "$CLIENT" and without. I >>>> don't know what else to try? :-( >>> >>> What do you get if you execute >>> >>> echo '|'"$CLIENT"'|' >>> >>> I just put those '|' there to more clearly delimit the value of >>> CLIENT. >>> >>> Gary >> 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... > > You didn't say anything about a cd or directories in your original > question. If you are still having difficulties, or just don't want > to have to do whatever it is you're having to do, we can probably > help. However, it would help us to help you if you would describe > precisely what it is you are trying to do and describe precisely > (with examples) of what happens when it doesn't work. See > > http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > Regards, > Gary Sorry about that... -- 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/