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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script - Grep Post 302514603 by jboy on Sunday 17th of April 2011 03:09:52 AM
Old 04-17-2011
Bash script - Grep

Hi,

I am very new to bash scripting and I need to write a bash script that takes two arguments, a string and a file. The output should be each line which matches the string *from the beginning of the line*. For example, given a string "ANA" the line starting with "ANABEL" will be printed, but the line starting with "SUSANA" will not. I need to use grep.

what I have tried is as follows:

Code:
 
#!/bin/bash
grep $1 $2

But this doesn't work, any help or direction will be very help, thanks in advance.
 

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NAME
logprof.conf - configuration file for expert options that modify the behavior of the AppArmor aa-logprof(1) program. DESCRIPTION
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apparmor(7), apparmor.d(5), aa-enforce(1), aa-complain(1), aa-disable(1), aa_change_hat(2), aa-logprof(1), aa-genprof(1), and <http://wiki.apparmor.net>. AppArmor 2.7.103 2012-06-28 LOGPROF.CONF(5)
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