So you recommend using regular expressions instead of grep..? Care to provide an example in this case?
-----Original Message----- From: Wiggins d Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:16 PM To: Lewick, Taylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Data File, turn fields on mulitple lines into records on one li ne.. . > Okay, I redid it so it looks like this... > > `grep -v "STUFF:STUFF" file1 > file2`; (I am looking for the string > STUFF:STUFF and that didn't work... but it works via command line... > > Any ideas? What is the "real" goal? Aka why are you shelling out to grep in the first place? As a side note you should be using full paths for grep, file1, file2, and you should be checking the return code of the command. Also it seems silly to use backticks if you are piping STDOUT to a file. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
