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|    Wilfred van Velzen to Rick Smith    |
|    Re: bash script and grep    |
|    01 Feb 23 17:05:23    |
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.5.2-B20230114   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 63da8e1b   
   REPLY: 1:105/10 63da89be   
   Hi Rick,   
      
   On 2023-02-01 07:44:02, you wrote to All:   
      
    RS> here is the error running the script.   
      
    RS> Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERNS [FILE]...   
    RS> Try 'grep --help' for more information.   
      
    RS> (yes I typed help, did not help me)   
      
    RS> here are the two areas in the script calling grep   
      
    RS> cat /fido/etc/areas_fidonet | grep EchoArea | grep 1:105/81 |sort>   
   $TMPFILE   
    RS> while read -r line   
    RS> do   
    RS> TAGLONG=`echo $line|awk {'print $2'}`   
    RS> TAGSHORT=`echo $line|awk {'print $2'}|sed s/FIDO_//`   
    RS> FILE=`echo $line|awk {'print $3'}`   
    RS> DESC=`cat backbone.na | grep $TAGLONG | awk '{$1=""; print   
   $0}'|sed   
    RS> 's/\r$//'`   
      
   I would place $TAGLONG inside double quotes here, just incase it's an empty   
   string.   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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