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Re: how to use gnu parallel and grep with a space
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Ole Tange |
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Re: how to use gnu parallel and grep with a space |
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Mon, 12 May 2014 17:30:28 +0200 |
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Shantanu Unknown
<shantanu9847@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use gnu parallel and grep as follows
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> cat tmp | parallel -j1 grep "^{} " ~/datafile.txt
The "^{} " gets unquoted, so you need to quote that one more time. It
can be done like this:
cat tmp | parallel -j1 grep "^{}\ " ~/datafile.txt
cat tmp | parallel -q -j1 grep "^{} " ~/datafile.txt
cat tmp | parallel -j1 grep '"^{} "' ~/datafile.txt
/Ole