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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Substitute grep command at run time Post 303022666 by rovf on Wednesday 5th of September 2018 07:40:02 AM
Old 09-05-2018
Once more:

- Since interpolation of the variable does not work, as I explained, I suggested that you model your "pattern" not by a variable named PATTERN, but by an alias named PATTERN.

- Also note that in my proposal, I suggested to drop the unnecessary cat command and replaced the depecated backquotes for process substitution, which you had used, by $(....). These changes don't affect the functionality, though.
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LID(1)								   User Commands							    LID(1)

NAME
lid - Query ID database and report results SYNOPSIS
lid [OPTION]... PATTERN... DESCRIPTION
Query ID database and report results. By default, output consists of multiple lines, each line containing the matched identifier followed by the list of file names in which it occurs. -f, --file=FILE file name of ID database -i, --ignore-case match PATTERN case insensitively -l, --literal match PATTERN as a literal string -r, --regexp match PATTERN as a regular expression -w, --word match PATTERN as a delimited word -s, --substring match PATTERN as a substring Note: If PATTERN contains extended regular expression metacharacters, it is interpreted as a regular expression substring. Other- wise, PATTERN is interpreted as a literal word. -k, --key=STYLE STYLE is one of `token', `pattern' or `none' -R, --result=STYLE STYLE is one of `filenames', `grep', `edit' or `none' -S, --separator=STYLE STYLE is one of `braces', `space' or `newline' and only applies to file names when `--result=filenames' The above STYLE options control how query results are presented. Defaults are --key=token --result=filenames --separator=space -F, --frequency=FREQ find tokens that occur FREQ times, where FREQ is a range expressed as `N..M'. If N is omitted, it defaults to 1, if M is omitted it defaults to MAX_USHRT -a, --ambiguous=LEN find tokens whose names are ambiguous for LEN chars -x, --hex only find numbers expressed as hexadecimal -d, --decimal only find numbers expressed as decimal -o, --octal only find numbers expressed as octal By default, searches match numbers of any radix. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to bug-idutils@gnu.org lid - 4.5 August 2012 LID(1)
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