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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers unable to use command line to cd or ls Post 302173782 by bosh on Friday 7th of March 2008 11:44:16 PM
Old 03-08-2008
Sorry i probably dont explained my self, what i am trying to do is
>cd $a
or
>ls $a

but none of this work and i have tried >cd echo $a, and >$a | cd
both for cd and ls... i know that when i execute just $a i get the path that was copied from the textfile.txt, but when i see what the variable contain it contains the command line, eval grep -w "something" textfile.txt | grep -w "anotherthing" | cut -c1-11.

please tell me how to use either cd or ls with the value i get from the execution of the command line (grep -w "something" textfile.txt | grep -w "anotherthing" | cut -c1-11)

Thank you
 

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zegrep

ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep  options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

                                                                                                                                          ZGREP(1)
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