Subj : Re: bash script and grep
To   : Daniel Path
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Feb 02 2023 17:30:09

Hi Daniel,

On 2023-02-02 14:39:49, you wrote to Rick Smith:

 RS>> cat /fido/etc/areas_fidonet | grep EchoArea | grep 1:105/81 |sort>
 RS>> $TMPFILE while read -r line do
 RS>>         TAGLONG=`echo $line|awk {'print $2'}`
 RS>>         TAGSHORT=`echo $line|awk {'print $2'}|sed s/FIDO_//`
 RS>>         FILE=`echo $line|awk {'print $3'}`
 RS>>         DESC=`cat backbone.na | grep $TAGLONG | awk '{$1=""; print
 RS>> $0}'|sed 's/\r$//'`

 DP> try: grep "1:105/81" or set it as a variable as in the original script

Strange... On my linux in bash these give the same result:

# echo 1:1/1 | grep 1:1/1
1:1/1

# echo 1:1/1 | grep "1:1/1"
1:1/1

There is an alias for grep:
alias grep='grep --color=auto'

But that shouldn't make a difference. Maybe on ubuntu it's different?


Bye, Wilfred.

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