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All,

I have a file ABC.TXT which has two records:

12345 19.93 34.94
12345 94.84 10.48


If do the following command and

grep '12345' ABC.TXT >> test1.txt

If I look at the output of test1.txt I appears as follows:

12345 19.93 34.94 12345 94.84 10.48

I need the output to appear in the output file as

12345 19.93 34.94
12345 94.84 10.48

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks
KP

Hi,
I doubt our input file 'ABC.TXT'.

Open the file in vi , in command mode set list and check

Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan.

Thanks for the reply,

I did check the input file ABC.txt and there was no problem with it.

--KP

I tried grep at the command line and it displays as two differnt lines.

I have no clue as why it it displays as a single line.

Hi,
Do u get the correct result when you just issue the following ?
grep '12345' ABC.TXT

Also check the IFS variable.? What does this contains?

Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan.

I good way of checking text files for unusual characters is to use 'cat -vet'. The following command will print any non ascii characters (look for the '^' symbol) as something visible, mark the end of each line with a '$' and it will print tabs as ^I and Line feels as ^L.

Code:

cat -vet ABC.TXT| more