Thank u very much for the pointer u gave. But i cracked this problem using grep itself. I said in 30¬G, let the 3rd character(each record in the file starts with 30¬G or 30¬C ) be...
In the HP Unix that i'm using when i initialise a string as Stalled="'30¬G'"
Stalled=$Stalled" '30¬C'", it is taking the character ¬ as a comma. I need to grep for 30¬G 30¬C in a file and...