Error during command authentication.
Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target=127.0.0.1:2306). The server is probably not started.
At 13:13 -0700 UTC, on 2009-09-17, [log in to unmask] wrote: > I'm trying to find every line in a 2800-line pipe delimited file that > contains: |(TRAV)| [...] > The version below returns every line of the file. I get your result when the input file contains Mac linebreaks[*]. Change the input file's linebreaks to unix linebreaks[*], and the below works fine: set input to quoted form of POSIX path of (choose file) do shell script "grep '|(TRAV)|' " & input The clue was given by using grep's -n flag, which prints line numbers for every line found. With the Mac line endings in the input file, grep printed only a single line number, indicating that it considered the file to contain a single line. And since that single line does contain the needle, it was given as the result. [*] With "Mac linebreaks" and "unix linebreaks" I'm using BBEdit/TextWrangler terminology. -- Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>