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Old 06-12-2012
sh - parsing string into grep
I'm using sh under AIX 5.3 and after grep'ing, awk'ing, splitting a file, I end up with two variables as:
Code:
0123456 789

Can these values be somehow passed into a grep as two different variables using xargs or something? What I want to do is this (the echo is just for effect here):
Code:
echo 0123456 789 | grep 0123456 /home/mydir/*789*

where the numbers in the example are variable. Can xargs support multiple {}?
Last edited by say170; 06-12-2012 at 08:14 PM..
# 2  
Old 06-12-2012
How about using a while read loop:

Code:
echo "0123456 789
0987654 321" | while read LOOK PAT
do
    grep $LOOK /home/mydir/*${PAT}*
done

# 3  
Old 06-12-2012
Just use two variables to hold the two values and then use the variables, for example:
Code:
var1="0123456"
var2="789"
grep $var1 /home/mydir/*$var2*

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