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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting syntax problem grepping? Post 302127325 by dsimpg1 on Tuesday 17th of July 2007 09:14:45 AM
Old 07-17-2007
I don't think either of the repliers understands the problem.

1) The variable actually contains the correct syntax of what I want (as seen in the trace).

2) When the grep command is executed, I am expecting to get results - I get NONE. This is where the problem is.

3) I don't need to (although I was unaware of a -c option) to use that to get a count because I am piping it to a wc -l which will give me the count (I just didn't put that in my statement as it would only confuse the issue).

As stated earlier, the grep command is NOT returning anything when executed in the script, but IS returning something when run from the command line. What is wrong?
 

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GREP-EXCUSES(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   GREP-EXCUSES(1)

NAME
grep-excuses - search the testing excuses files for a specific maintainer SYNOPSIS
grep-excuses [options] [maintainer|package] DESCRIPTION
grep-excuses downloads the update_excuses.html file and greps it for the specified maintainer name. The libwww-perl package is required for this script. If no name is given on the command line, first the environment variable DEBFULLNAME is used if it is defined, and failing that, the configuration variable described below is used. OPTIONS
--no-conf, --noconf Do not read any configuration files. This can only be used as the first option given on the command-line. --wipnity, -w Get information from <http://release.debian.org/migration/>. A package name must be given when using this option. --help Show a brief usage message. --version Show version and copyright information. CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced in that order to set configuration variables. Command line options can be used to override configuration file settings. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose. The currently recognised variable is: GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER The default maintainer, email or package to grep for if none is specified on the command line. SEE ALSO
devscripts.conf(5). AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>; modifications by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>. DEBIAN
Debian Utilities GREP-EXCUSES(1)
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