how to Ignore spaces in a string of a line of file on which grep is used? [Archive]

View Full Version : how to Ignore spaces in a string of a line of file on which grep is used?

webdev

11-26-2009, 07:48 AM

i have a file a.txt which contains "ysm.set.ac4-qa.sds.audit add yinst setting yti. YTI_ HOST_OVERRIDE =qa-sav-midas-002.ysm.ac4.yahoo.com" I have variable STR which is dynamically assigned the value "HOST_OVERRIDE=qa-sav-midas-002.ysm.ac4.yahoo.com" I need to grep $STR on the file...