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Re: Problem with Cygwin 1.7.17 + Bash and Grep...
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.Nellis@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
>
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