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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search for a pattern in a String file and count the occurance of each pattern Post 302726633 by swayam123 on Monday 5th of November 2012 03:09:28 AM
Old 11-05-2012
Hi Bipinajith,

Thanks , for your prompt reply.
I am getting a message
grep: illegal option -- o

I am using ksh

The output without the -o option also seems to work, what are we trying to do by the -o option .

I am new to shell please pardon my ignorance
 

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suspend(1)							   User Commands							suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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