Re: grep problem

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:18:12PM +0200, Johan Smets wrote:
> xxxxx_MICHIGAN_001_HIGHPRESSURE
> xxxxx_NEWYORK_001_LOWPRESSURE
> xxxxx_MICHIGAN_002_HIGHPRESSURE
...
> grep mich ALM150605.STR > test.txt
> 
> so we are going to search for every line with mich in it in the file
> ALM150605.STR and we write every matching line to a text file named test.
> but this does not work.

I don't believe you are describing a bug in GNU grep.
Perhaps you need

grep MICH ALM150605.STR >test.txt

or

grep -i mich ALM150605.STR >test.txt

Remember that GNU utilities are case sensitive by default.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal