Gary Johnson used his keyboard to write :
On 2007-03-29, Kevin Markle wrote:
Hello,

I'm trying to find a pattern in a file and the command works if I manully put the output of the variable in it but when I use the variable it fails? I have tryed with quotes "$CLIENT" and without. I don't know what else to try? :-(

What do you get if you execute

    echo '|'"$CLIENT"'|'

I just put those '|' there to more clearly delimit the value of CLIENT.

Gary
I tryed adding a cd to the directory that I was attempting to grep from and that worked? This is okay because is worked but it would be nice to not have to so that...




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