Dear all

I tried to use grep function in HP UNIX 11.0 for matching exact word in
a reference file. It not only returns exact matched word, but also
returns similar matched word.

My reference file:
abc20060812 code01
abc_def20060812 code02
xyz_qpr_sty20060812 code03

I tried:
for f in *.txt
{
key=${f%%2*}
mapped_code='grep $key $referencefile | cut -f2 -d" "'
printf "%s%s\n" $mapped_code $(date +%y%m%d)
....
}
done

I want to output:
code01060812 (in file 1 header)
code02060812 (in file 2 header)

But, it output:
code01code02060812 (in file1and file2)

I also tried:
mapped_code='grep -w $key $referencefile | cut -f2 -d" "'
or
mapped_code='grep \<$key\> $referencefile | cut -f2 -d" "'

However, it generates error and cannot match the exact word
respectively. I read other news in google groups. I found grep -w and
grep \<$key\> does not work in HP UNIX.

Could you give me some suggestions?

Cheers
Bon

bonnie.tangyn@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Could you give me some suggestions?
>
> Cheers
> Bon

You didn't give an example of the "Key" you were searching for,
however:

having located the lines that contain the pattern, could you not "test"
the value of the key against the located field? ie.

if [ "$key" = "$found" ]
then
   echo "same"
else
   echo "not the same"
fi


also,  you should be able to download the gnu version of grep from
either the hp porting center or rtr.com.  just don't put it in place of
the HPUX version, as I've seen it cause problems w/ SAM