Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I am having a query regarding the usage of egrep command.

i am having two unix environmanets in environment when i am using
"egrep -f" it is working fine and other unix environment i am getting a syntax error.

Please let me know if i need to set any environmane variables.

Also please provide a sample example how to use egrep -f

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Sriram

what is your command? can you post?
also if possible sample data from the pattern file.

Which Operating System(s)?
What did you type and what was the result?
What is in the "-f" file?

Please tell me that in which environment it is not working and what error it shows

Hi,

The command used is:

Code:

count=`echo "Sriram-201002.DAT" | egrep -f Mask_File.lst | wc -l`

And my sample Mask_File.lst has following entries:

Code:

^Sriram-.*DAt$
^Unix-.*DAt$
^Sample-.*DAt$

We are using Solaries10.

see the difference in DAT and DAt.
you don't actually need egrep by the way.

And the error message is .... ?