parsing lines from file into variable

[cmarchman]

Here's the problem - I am trying to place whole lines from a file, i.e.
>Directory Structure Error<
...
...
...
into a variable to conduct a search on.

$line=`grep ^">" <filename>`;

while ( $line ); do
grep -l $line *.xml;
done

What is happening is that I'm getting individual words instead of the lines placed in the variable and it appears to be acting on it as a command as I'm getting an error of

<commandfilename> =>Directory command not found

Any ideas?

Thanks,

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
grep '^>' <filename> | while read line
do
grep -l "$line" *.xml
done


Hope This Helps, PH.
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[cmarchman]

PH,

It did help - Thanks

cmarchman