rem I've downloaded the page at http://forums.mysql.com/index.php rem and saved it to the MYSQL-Index.html file below. I wanted to rem use GNU GREP to grab all the <a> with the current date in them rem so I can see out of the myriad of forums which ones have current rem posts in them. Using DOS Batch file.
rem The first GREP works fine, but the 2nd one I'm getting: rem grep: >: Invalid argument rem grep: J:\Temporary\Forums-2.html: No such file or directory rem as it can't seem to split the PATTERN and the redirection character rem and thinks the last is another input file. rem I've tried quoting the ?, placing filenames inside of "%Out1% and rem even escaping the ^> or \> but it doesn't work. Anyone have a clue? set Index1=C:\zCDROMS\wbtTemp\MySQL-Index.html set Out1=J:\Temporary\Forums.txt set Out2=J:\Temporary\Forums-2.html grep -B10 "forum-last-post.*>December 09" %Index1% > %Out1% grep "php?[0-9].\"" %Out1% > %Out2%
