So silly. Used pspad to reformat as UNIX(LF) and works as expected now. Thanks Ken.
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Nellis, Kenneth <kenneth.nel...@xerox.com> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Vladimir Morales > > Tried google and found similar, but not the exact issue I'm seeing. > I'm running Windows 7 and trying to run a simple bash one-liner using > grep: > > [vmorales@D630-Vmorales ~]# uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 D630-Vmorales 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39 i686 > Cygwin > > > I'm essentially trying to take the contents of one file, and use it as > input for a grep command against another file, but I do not get any > results, even though I know the 2nd file contains a match. In the > one-liner below, I include an "echo" to confirm the output is in the > variable that should be used with the grep command. > > [vmorales@D630-Vmorales ~]# for i in `cat file-a.txt`; do echo $i; > grep $i file-b.txt; done > alpha > beta > charlie > delta > echo > > [vmorales@D630-Vmorales ~]# grep charlie file-b.txt > charlie,13 > > > This is pretty straight-forward and can't think of what I may be > missing here. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Vlad > -----End Original Message----- > > Maybe file-a.txt contains CRLF line endings? > --Ken Nellis > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple