[SOLVED] searching words with space

grail · 05-28-2011, 02:06 AM

Quote:

Yes I tried with doublequotes. Not worked.

Seems to work just fine for me:

Code:

$ cat file
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb  2 11:23 79
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 12 11:11 8
$ a=Feb
$ b=2
$ egrep "$a +$b" file
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb  2 11:23 79

divyashree · 05-28-2011, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grail

Seems to work just fine for me:

Code:

$ cat file
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb  2 11:23 79
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 12 11:11 8
$ a=Feb
$ b=2
$ egrep "$a +$b" file
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb  2 11:23 79

Yes it worked correctly, there was another place where I was doing wrong. Now its ok..