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# 1  
Old 01-15-2015
Grep not working on mac
Hi all,
I got a new mac and can't get grep, awk etc to work.

I tried the following command:

Code:
grep DICER test.txt

output:
Code:
AGOER

text.txt looks like this:

Code:
DICER
DICER
AGO

What is wrong?

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Mod Comment Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 01-15-2015
Please show the output of

Code:
echo $PATH

# 3  
Old 01-15-2015
Code:
robinm$ echo $PATH

/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.23_1/libexec/gnubin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

I installed the Homebrew package
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-15-2015 at 12:31 PM..
# 4  
Old 01-15-2015
Hello,
What is file format (unix,dos,mac) ?
I think file format is mac but your tools work with unix format...
examples:
Code:
$ grep DICER MAC.txt
DICER
DICER
$ unix2mac MAC.txt
unix2mac: conversion du fichier MAC.txt au format Mac...
$ grep DICER MAC.txt
AGOER

# 5  
Old 01-15-2015
I saved it as tab delimited text (.txt) from excel on mac.


I also tried another command that did not work:

Code:
sed '/^\s*$/d' Endonuclease_GO-0004519_Filter.txt

Output:

Code:
E3C5X5

DCL4
DICER
CAS1A
CAS2A
APE

T2BA
ENDOA

The empty lines remains, even if the function is supposed to remove them.
What is wrong with my files??
Last edited by Palgrave; 01-15-2015 at 10:40 AM..
# 6  
Old 01-15-2015
Post the output of od -ctx1 run on your files.
# 7  
Old 01-15-2015
Code:
Endonuclease_GO-0004519_Filter.txt | head
0000000   E   3   C   5   X   5  \r  \n  \r  \n   D   C   L   4  \r  \n
         45  33  43  35  58  35  0d  0a  0d  0a  44  43  4c  34  0d  0a
0000020   D   I   C   E   R  \r  \n   C   A   S   1   A  \r  \n   C   A
         44  49  43  45  52  0d  0a  43  41  53  31  41  0d  0a  43  41
0000040   S   2   A  \r  \n   A   P   E  \r  \n  \r  \n   T   2   B   A
         53  32  41  0d  0a  41  50  45  0d  0a  0d  0a  54  32  42  41
0000060  \r  \n   E   N   D   O   A  \r  \n   N   F   I  \r  \n   R   E
         0d  0a  45  4e  44  4f  41  0d  0a  4e  46  49  0d  0a  52  45
0000100   C   U  \r  \n   Y   O   K   F  \r  \n   Q   9   M   C   N   1
         43  55  0d  0a  59  4f  4b  46  0d  0a  51  39  4d  43  4e  31

Last edited by Corona688; 01-15-2015 at 11:33 AM..
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