Assisting with troubleshooting is much easier with a reproducible example. On Thursday, November 25, 2010, A Joshi <ajoshi977@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi > I have a UNIX shell script that populates a file and then does grep on it. > in the shell script it is missing some lines that has the grep string. > from interactive UNIX session grep I get bigger and right list. I am using > the same exact grep that is in the UNIX shell script. only difference is in > the shell script file name is referred to as $flist > I'm submitting shell script as nohup > I checked everything. I tried removing the file and re-create. > it is strange. can someone help. TIA > > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l