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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Regular expression as parameter Post 302364287 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 22nd of October 2009 02:26:35 PM

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10-22-2009

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Code:

grep -i "$1" $TEMPUSERS > $USERSFILE

The "" stops the interpretation of special characters.

Code:

COUNT=`wc -l < $USERSFILE`

Otherwise the filename gets printed as well.

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