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Problem with grep
From: |
Berlin, Eric |
Subject: |
Problem with grep |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:40:48 +0000 |
Dear gnu.org
I have never written to an organization of this sort before, but I have run
into a problem with grep that I cannot find a reasonable answer for no matter
how hard I read the man page or google. My grep version is grep (GNU grep)
2.5.1-FreeBSD and I have many grep lines in my bash shell script but here is a
typical one:
grep -m 1 "FAILED.*Hardware inventory tool" "$D/output_log"|wc -l|tr -d '\n' >>
arrayfile
I repeatedly get the following error when I run the script;
"grep: Invalid max count"
I have tried several small programs as experiments but can't reproduce the
problem that way. I did notice that the file "output_log" contains '-A' in it
and thought that was causing the problem, but my small programs don't cause the
above error.
So, my question - Is this a bug or expected behavior?
Thanks much,
Eric Berlin
- Problem with grep,
Berlin, Eric <=