Want to find a line in a file and print the output

[bas1080]

How can i find a line in a sequence of files and print the output to another file.

Thanks in Advance

 

[duncdude]

grep


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[bas1080]

I want to write a shell script for this. I am new to shell so could anyone help with this. What i may want to do is to get the grep results in a declared variable and print it out.

Thanks

 

[PHV]

And what have you so far ?

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[bas1080]

test_file = zcat myname.tgz | tar -tvf - |cat /etc/inet/inetd.conf | grep lpstat

I want to store the output to test_file and print it.But it is giving error.

 

[SamBones]

Can you define what you're trying to do better? I can't quite tell from your original post and from what you have so far.

 

[duncdude]

I'm quite a novice to this shell scripting i'm afraid - but how come you have not redirected output with the >

i.e.
grep 'lpstat' FILES > grep_output.txt


Kind Regards
Duncan