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Thanks guys, But I would like to do it with grep only no awk. I tried another code shown below and I got an error saying that " line 2: a: command not found"


#!/bin/bash
a = `grep -q -w $1...

Hi,

Could anyone help me with the following question, if I have two colums (names and frequency) as follows in a file called name.txt


Michael 1
Jones 1
Ben 2
Rebeca 4
David 1

and I...

Ok, here is what the question is asking:
Create a file called "filename.txt" containing, IN THE ORIGINAL ORDER, only the lines of

/usr/local/names.txt

starting with the string 'BAT' or 'SAT'....

Thanks for the swift reply. It works perfectly fine with egrep but is there a way that I can actually do it with grep because I want to copy the lines of a file in the ORGINAL ORDER to another file?...

Hi,

This is what I have done so far which is wrong for some reason:

grep -h "stringA | stringB" filename

Thank in advance!

Hey, I don't know why your code didn't work the first time..But it is working now.
Thanks for your help.

I tried this but I still get no correct output...



a=`grep ^$2 $1`
echo $a


so I tried the following way but the results are displayed in one line, if I have a file with multiple...

Yes, here is what I have tried inside the script file but it does not work:



thanks.

Thanks, but this doesn't work without using echo command inside the script file and I don't know how to make it work.

Hi,

I am very new to bash scripting and I need to write a bash script that takes two arguments, a string and a file. The output should be each line which matches the string *from the beginning of...