grep

[Daniel Skinner]

Using

grep (GNU grep) 2.5

 

Seems to have an odd issue with the number two

 

If I dump data to a file that I call "2" without quotes and then issue

 

grep phone 2

 

It returns the line in full

 

phone_num ...

 

But if I assign a variable as so

 

tmp1=`grep phone 2`

 

and echo $tmp1 it seems to REPLACE the "phone" and anything attached to
the word; such as "phone_num" with the number 2.

 

2 ...

 

It seems to have happened if the name of the file is 2 or 222 thus far.