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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep command error Post 302788265 by pratima.kumari on Monday 1st of April 2013 11:48:43 AM
Old 04-01-2013
Grep command error
I am using a command but getting an error despite of modifying it many times.
Code:
Pattern=`grep story file|cut -c 19-24`

Where as 'story' is the pattern to be matched and i want to cut the value of characters ranging from 19 to 24 when this pattern is found in a variable.

file consists of below log:

A short story is a brief work of literature
usually written in narrative prose
Emerging from earlier oral telling traditions


Am I doing something wrong. This command is being written in a shell script
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-01-2013 at 01:01 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

																	  ZGREP(1)
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