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# 8  
Old 02-17-2012
Quote it too.

Code:
egrep -F "R1_980302_105147(2)" namelist.txt

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Old 02-17-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Quote it too.

Code:
egrep -F "R1_980302_105147(2)" namelist.txt

it returns:

egrep: conflicting matchers specified

then, i tried

Code:
egrep "R1_980303_232712(2).tif" namelist.txt

no error messages out, but it fails to show me the line containing R1_980303_232712(2).tif which i'm pretty sure there is a line

any ideas? thanks!
# 10  
Old 02-17-2012
The -F is necessary. () are special characters to the shell and to grep. You must prevent the shell from expanding them with "", and grep from interpreting them with -F.

My version of egrep inexplicably does not recognize -F. Maybe yours doesn't either. Try plain grep with -F. Otherwise your system might have several different versions of grep and need one particular one to support -F. Solaris in particular is full of wackiness like that.
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Old 02-17-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
The -F is necessary. () are special characters to the shell and to grep. You must prevent the shell from expanding them with "", and grep from interpreting them with -F.

My version of egrep inexplicably does not recognize -F. Maybe yours doesn't either. Try plain grep with -F. Otherwise your system might have several different versions of grep and need one particular one to support -F. Solaris in particular is full of wackiness like that.
grep works!

thank you very much for so many replies!
 
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