Shell Programming and Scripting

I am currently having a problem with displaying multiple occurences of a line using grep/sed combination. Let's say that I do grep "$anything" $file.
When I do this it only displays a single line, but if I do grep -c "$anything" $file it says that there are 3 occurences of $anything, but how can I display those 3 occurences?
.... I have tried other ways such as awk /\$anything/ ....etc but I am currently stuck! please help!

A simple grep command doesn't show a single line but every line containing the pattern. eg:

Code:

$ grep ftp /etc/services
ftp-data	20/tcp
ftp		21/tcp
tftp		69/udp
$ grep -c ftp /etc/services
3

Please provide more details about what you are experiencing.

grep -c prints the count of matching lines per file. So, if

Code:

grep something file

displays a single line, then

Code:

grep -c something file

will print 1.

tyler_durden

say $a contains 5 rows of random digits, if I do grep "therandomdigits" $a... It only shows 1 line of digits, but If I do grep -c "therandomdigits" $a it shows 5 as output meaning 5 lines of output correct?

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If $anything is a variable that is initialized as # shouldnt grep display all lines that contain #?
For my code, it only displays one line but counts 6 or so.

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Better example

s=#
$a contains

stanle#y hey
tc#p ss#h
udp tcp
PDB CDB

grep -c "$s" $a =

2

but grep "$s" $a =

stanle#y hey

Your grep looks broken. What OS and grep version are you using ?

Code:

$ echo $s
#
$ cat $a
stanle#y hey
tc#p ss#h
udp tcp
PDB CDB
$ grep "$s" $a
stanle#y hey
tc#p ss#h
$ grep -c "$s" $a
2

I think its more under the lines of myself not understanding now to actually do this with my amount of text I have to display I'll post again if a new issue pops up... thanks for the help so far

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I think my problem is happening because my line is so long that its only showing the first one, is there a way to change the output into seperate even fields? Meh, I don't even think thats the real problem either, I can get it to work out of my program but not inside it. It never displays the 3 lines of data that it says that it has with -c.


--- It seems to me that within my code, It only prints the last line of the file that contains what ever I am grepping, any idea? it counts a certain number but displays the LAST line that it counts!

Sorry for being direct but it would help if you:
- answer to the questions asked
- provide facts and reproducible tests instead of confusing statements.