Sean Carolan wrote: > This is kind of odd. > > [scarolan@host:~]$ cat loremipsum.txt > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec quis > ipsum sed elit laoreet malesuada. Quisque rhoncus dui vitae eros > euismod fermentum sollicitudin sem scelerisque. Nulla facilisi. > Maecenas mollis pulvinar euismod. Duis viverra pharetra turpis eget > feugiat. Nulla facilisi. Nullam facilisis, felis vitae lacinia > fermentum, enim erat placerat erat, vel imperdiet lorem velit et > ligula. Nam congue est in nisl lacinia lobortis. Vivamus elementum > lacinia sodales. Curabitur commodo risus tincidunt augue pulvinar > vehicula. Morbi eget velit sollicitudin nibh porta molestie. Maecenas > in augue id quam ullamcorper rutrum. > > [scarolan@host:~]$ vi loremipsum.txt > [scarolan@host:~]$ myvar=$(grep lorem loremipsum.txt) > [scarolan@host:~]$ echo $myvar > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, co sectetur adipisci g elit. Do ec quis > ipsum sed elit laoreet malesuada. Quisque rho cus dui vitae eros > euismod ferme tum sollicitudi sem scelerisque. Nulla facilisi. Maece > as mollis pulvi ar euismod. Duis viverra pharetra turpis eget feugiat. > Nulla facilisi. Nullam facilisis, felis vitae laci ia ferme tum, e im > erat placerat erat, vel imperdiet lorem velit et ligula. Nam co gue > est i isl laci ia lobortis. Vivamus eleme tum laci ia sodales. > Curabitur commodo risus ti cidu t augue pulvi ar vehicula. Morbi eget > velit sollicitudi ibh porta molestie. Maece as i augue id quam > ullamcorper rutrum. > > Where did all the letter n's go? 1. What does "grep lorem loremipsum.txt" say? 2. What does "echo loremipsum.txt | grep lorem" say? -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos