Re: [tlug] print grep results to file

[Scott <scottro@example.com>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:31:28PM +0900, Charles Muller wrote:
> I want to search a directory of files, retrieve the lines that contain
> "<hdwd>" and print them to a file. I tried to do it with this:
> 
> dell@[chuck] # grep "<hdwd>" *.xml -print > /home/chuck/headwords.txt
> 
> ...but I am missing something. I googled around a bit to try to find
> some sort of example for this, but so far, no luck. Any suggestions?

What happens if you leave out print?  (Tested on FreeBSD, and sometimes
builtin commands are slightly different.)

For instance grep "<hdwd>" *.html > /home/chuck/headwords.txt




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