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Re: grep will not work with a variable?
- From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn at spk dot agilent dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:35:13 -0700
- Subject: Re: grep will not work with a variable?
- References: <mn.eb517d73f1140792.51129@pbs.org>
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
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