Good morning Friend, please, post one example of your script and the result that will be created by script. Cheers Waldirio On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > > -- ______________ Atenciosamente Waldirio msn: waldirio@xxxxxxxxx Skype: waldirio Site: www.waldirio.com.br Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/pub/waldirio-pinheiro/22/b21/646 PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html