Why cant I get this command to execute?
ls -l /bin/?? | grep rwxr-xr-x | sort

Do I have to stand somewhere in the filessystem, or what?
I can execute the first command, but not the second (grep) if I do them one by one.

Please help!

I can run this command in my system:
[zma@localhost tmp]$ ls -l /bin/?? | grep rwxr-xr-x | sort
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110008 2010-01-12 22:35 /bin/mv
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116688 2010-01-12 22:35 /bin/ls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118928 2010-01-12 22:35 /bin/cp
...

Have grep been installed in your system? You can try "whereis grep" to see whether you have it.

If it does not exist, you should install it first.

In fedora, it is:

#yum install grep

Worked fine for me as root and also as normal user

what version of Linux are you using?
What shell are you using?
What errors are you getting?

Rgds

ditto---works here

What happens when you run the grep command at a command line? It should wait for input. You can feed it multiple lines and terminate with Ctrl+D.

Thanks for all answers!
I guess I´m so newbe so I don`t understand what should happend.
I get an empty input line when grep is called, if I press ctrl+D, nothing happens.
I expect to get an output of what I want to grep, in this case files with rwxr-xr-x, but I don`t. I can see that files like this exist after I run the first command, so I don´t get it.

My answer took a while, cause I wanted to try this again first, but no progress :-(

I anyone have time, please explain whats wrong, or how I use the grep command, if I missunderstood this..

I use Ubuntu and OS X. Grep is installed.

First, does grep work normally in other situations? For example, look at a small text file (make one if necessary), and use grep to find a word, eg:
Second, if you run the grep command by itself with only a keyword, then I would not know what to expect. (grep needs a keyword and a file--or data stream--to read from)

can you show us the output ofso that we know what the output grep should be working on would be.