The issue is the text format. Windows is \r\n; Unix is \n.
I used Notepad++ to save in Unix text format and everything worked
fine.
Sigh...should have thought of that before.
Roy Jensen
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:08:54 -0700, you wrote:
>I've created a text file (in Windows) with the text patterns I wish to
>search for. Using the -f switch, grep only searches for the last
>pattern in the file. If there is a blank line at the end, grep finds
>nothing.
>
>grep -a -A 4 -f pattern.txt my.file > output.txt
>
>Any suggestions to get this to work?
>
>Thanks,
>Roy Jensen
>
>Roy Jensen
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