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Sorry, my mistake. It was just an example to illustrate the problem i needed solving.

thanks everybody for their help, based on a combination of all the replies received, i was able to achieve what i wanted.

thanks again
Melvyn

i am still having problems trying to get this to work.

The grep is having problems returning the filename if there are null charachers within the file. I have tried the dos2unix command, but it...

Assuming the files, as shown previously in the post, are as follows....

File Name : G0001.dat
The BMW is a great car, worthy of consideration.^M
This car consists of^M
^M
4 wheels^M
4 Seats^M...

Hi all,

the latest solution proposed by radoulov seems to work wonderfully, if my files are pure text files, but it appears that they are not pure text file.

There appears to be control...

bakunin,

thanks for your assistance.
Just to clarify, the character strings are not at the beginning of the file, but could be anywhere within the file. Also the target directory names are not...

Hi All

my scenario is as follows...

I have the following three files in directory alphabet, containing the respective character string...

Filename Character String...