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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Issue with passing variable to Grep in a shell script Post 302550313 by itkamaraj on Thursday 25th of August 2011 09:48:51 AM
Old 08-25-2011
$methodToCheck --> there may be multiline value in this variable

Code:
grep -q "$methodToCheck" WorkingInterface.txt



---------- Post updated at 07:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:15 PM ----------

Code:
$ a="one two three" 
$ echo $a
one two three

$ echo "one two three four" > mytest

$ grep $a mytest 
grep: two: No such file or directory
grep: three: No such file or directory
mytest:one two three four

$ grep "$a" mytest 
one two three four

 

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