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Subject: RE: Problem with Cygwin 1.7.17 + Bash and Grep...
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:49:13 +0000
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>I'm essentially trying to take the contents of one file, and use it as
>input for a grep command against another file, but I do not get any
>results, even though I know the 2nd file contains a match.  In the
>one-liner below, I include an "echo" to confirm the output is in the
>variable that should be used with the grep command.
>
>[vmorales AT D630-Vmorales ~]# for i in `cat file-a.txt`; do echo $i;
>grep $i file-b.txt; done
>alpha
>beta
>charlie
>delta
>echo
>
>[vmorales AT D630-Vmorales ~]# grep charlie file-b.txt
>charlie,13

File-a.txt must be in DOS format. Try this. 

for i in `cat file-a.txt | d2u`; do echo $i;
grep $i file-b.txt; done
alpha
beta
charlie
charlie,13
delta
echo

Roger



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