The error comes from the wildcard expansion, not from the grep command.
just do this (depending on what you are trying to achieve) :
or
Note that if you want to grep a pattern inside the files listed, then you should not use the -l option of the ls command so the name of the file will be displayed directly and can be passed to grep via xargs command.
Otherwise, the file name will be on the 9th field
Hi
I would like to know wheather there is anyway to pass a variable to grep argument like this
grep "$myvar" $myfile
i would put this in a function and then call this function by setting different values to myvar and myfile.
is this possible at all.
regards
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