Did grep change it's syntax? I need to know...

[James Wilkinson]

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> It should hit on the first "IL". Can someone try this on FC4 and see what 
> happens for you?

Works fine here, on FC4 (x86_84). Do you have LANG or LC_* set?
set | grep LANG
set | grep LC_

I understand that the ${dir}$1.$$ file is correctly created: you might
want to have commands after the /bin/mail and before the fi to append
the date, filename and file contents into a log file somewhere. That way
you can be pretty sure that everything is working until the /bin/mail.

As has been pointed out, there are more efficient ways of writing that
shell script. Even if I'd have kept the temp file, I'd probably have
gone for
file=/blah/blah/$1.$$
instead of $dir, and something like
grep -q " IL " $file && mail -s "ALERT: LOOK OUT!" user at example.com < $file

Hope this helps,

James.
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