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Old 07-01-2005
grep error message
hi,

I get this error message after I pipe a lot of output into grep. Does anyone know what his means?

grep: writing output: Invalid argument

thanks,
gammaman
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Old 07-01-2005
Please post the OS you are using. Also, please post the grep statement that you are attempting to run. Finally, define "a lot of output". What exactly are you trying to do?
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Old 07-01-2005
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Originally Posted by google
Please post the OS you are using. Also, please post the grep statement that you are attempting to run. Finally, define "a lot of output". What exactly are you trying to do?
hi,
I'm using windows XP that has a window's version of grep (GnuWin32) installed. What I'm doing is writing a perl script that will run the cleartool program from ClearCase, and pipe the results into a grep. Then I will output all of the results into an output file. But this error message comes up. I'm not certain if its due to a flaw with GnuWin32, or something I'm doing wrong with grep and perl. I apologize if this is a wrong post for this forum.

$test = `cleartool command_example | grep $ARGV[0]`;
print TEST_FILE "$test";

thanks,
gammaman
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Old 07-11-2005
try using "findstr" instead ...
 
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