[Linux-disciples] Grep oddity

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:04:23AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Yes, it's because stderr is different from stdout.
> Add 2>&1 and your problem will be solved.

Well, I did have that, but ...

> I would take a different approach, though:
> 
> for x in $(grep -o "[0-9]{3}\.jpg" filename.html)
> do
>   if [ ! -e dirname/$x ]
>   then
>      echo File $x does not exist
>   fi
> done

That did the trick. Much more straightforward and clean.
Nice; thanks, Adam.

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