As always check how many versions of grep you have in default path vs the script path. If there are aliases defined -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 1:27 AM To: ajoshi977@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: ** UNIX shell -- grep behavior different 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 Please visit our website at http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/wealth/E-maildisclaimer.html for important disclosures and information about our e-mail policies. For your protection, please do not transmit orders or instructions by e-mail or include account numbers, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l