Thank you so so much Chubler_XL, this is what happened when I ran your script:

Code:

Please input gene name you wish to look for
SOD1
awk: invalid -v option

awk: invalid -v option

awk: invalid -v option

awk: invalid -v option

awk: invalid -v option

awk: invalid -v option

awk: invalid -v option

Any clue why?

Something I forgot to mention, I would like the output file to be $GeneName_date.txt please

Thank you so much again for your help,

Kelly

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Dear Mayur,

Thank you so much for providing me with this script, but I am having the same problem as I have had before

When I ran your script

Code:

echo "Please input gene name you wish to look for"
         read GeneName
         grep -H $GeneName *.txt > $GeneName.txt

All it did was concatenate the 6 .txt files I have in that directory? I just want single lines from these files that contain $GeneName.

Thank you again for your help.

Kelly

P.S. Maybe I can email two of my data files?