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I got it to work by using MadeInGermany's suggestion. Would you be able to explain what happened so I can understand? What do the second pair of single quotes around "$argv[1]" actually help it do to...

I am getting no error messages now, but I am not getting the results that should come with the script.

For example, my script name is softLinkFinder.txt
I type in softLinkFinder.txt softlink.txt...

I'm not sure I understand. I tried what you wrote too, and it still says the variable must start with a letter.

unfortunately it does

I am trying to make a script that has grep finding lines that I get from the cat command, that start with something and end with an argument. I can get the first part, but whenever I try to add on...

The file contents would be the scripts that are in the file names

I am wanting each of the things listed to go into different files, though, and not just one file in the other directory. For example after I do the backup files when i do an

ls ~/test

i would...

My problem is that at the end even if I use the redirection operator,

> ~/argv[2]/$argv[1].bak

I'm thinking it is only taking the file that I am using grep on, and not the actual stuff...

I am trying to program a script that is using grep to find lines in a file in my home directory, and then use a pipe command to copy what is shown into different files in a different directory to...