On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > Hi -- > > Can't seem to figure out how to make this BASH script do what I would like it > to do: > > I have 2 files: > > file A: > Name of place 1 > Name of place 2 > ... > > file B: > Name of place 1 [tab] code1 > Name of place 1 [tab] code1 > ... > > The "Name of place" values often have spaces in them, which seems to be > confusing a for loop in bash: > > running: > for this_quadname in `cat file_a`; do echo grep -i "$this_quadname" file_b ; > done > > produces this: > grep -i 'Name' file_b > grep -i 'of' file_b > grep -i 'place' file_b > > ...so it would seem that the for loop is iterating over both spaces AND > newlines in the `cat file_a` expression...
Hi, Try using a while-read loop instead: while read line; do grep "$line" test2.txt; done < test.txt Or in your case: while read this_quadname; do echo grep -i "$this_quadname" file_b ; done < file_a LMK if it works! HTH, FL _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
