Never heard of pspad, but I use Cygwin's dos2unix all the time for this kind of thing. Alan Thompson
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Gates, Roger <roger.ga...@goodrich.com> wrote: > > > >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 > -- 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
