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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to grep a string in todays file Post 302410304 by durden_tyler on Monday 5th of April 2010 02:35:56 PM
Old 04-05-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by DallasT
...The last option you mentioned was the one i was looking for, but it didnt work!
...
What's the error message that you see on your terminal ?
Can you copy/paste the part of your terminal screen where you run the command and encounter the error ?

tyler_durden
 

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