>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
File-a.txt must be in DOS format. Try this. for i in `cat file-a.txt | d2u`; do echo $i; grep $i file-b.txt; done alpha beta charlie charlie,13 delta echo Roger -- 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
