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From: andres@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Andres Susarret)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: delimiter error?
Message-ID: <9009200301.AA07586@pueblo.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 03:01:13 GMT
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I've been unsuccessful in getting a line like

	echo `egrep "^Subject:" ~/generic-news-article`

to work if the string egrep finds has a "/" (slash-mark) in it.
(Yes, I know this is redundant  :)
An example line in the file "generic-news-article" might be

	Subject: Tell me if I am right/wrong

and the the resulting error message is

	right/: No such file or directory

When I take away the echo and the back-quotes(?) and use only

	egrep "^Subject:" ~/generic-news-article

it works.

Am I right in thinking that egrep is confusing the search string argument with
the file arguments?  I haven't succeeded with various combinations of quotes
and double-quotes, and I've already tried using egrep's -e option.

Could someone clue me in on how to handle this?
(I prefer e-mail, but I also try to keep up w/ Usenet....)

Thanks,

-andres
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Andres Susarret                                     CIS "operator"  :)
andres@cis.ohio-state.edu                           Ohio State University