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Old 09-03-2007
Illegal instruction(coredump)

Hi

I am trying to execute a simple grep command looking for records in a filename that start with 01 (grep ^01 filename) and am getting the error Illegal instruction(coredump). Has anyone any idea why this happens? Is it due to the file being corrupted?

Thanks
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Old 09-03-2007
Fixed now!!

It turns out that in this case the error is due to corruption within a file
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