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ICS wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Even though I try to use egrep in windows I posted this here because I
> thought I can get better help here.
> So this is what I try to run in a batch file, but egrep just gives me an
> error message.
>
> for %%a in (o:\logs\users\*.txt) do type %%a >> allu.tmp
> egrep -v allu.tmp > loginsu.tmp

You're missing an argument to egrep -- you've given a filename, but
haven't given a regular expression. So I'd expect it to use allu.tmp as
the regular expression, and process standard input.

> sort < loginsu.tmp > loginuse.txt
>
> Error message:
> egrep: (standard input): Not enough space
>
> Regardless how big is the allu.tmp file I get this error. I can see the
> loginsu.tmp file grow as egrep is processing the allu.tmp, but when it
> supposedly gets to the end it terminates with the error and the
> loginsu.tmp file ends up being a zero size file.
> Would anyone know what is going on? There can't be a shortage of space
> on the hard disk, there are lots of it free. I tried to run the batch
> file in both Windows 2000 and 2003.

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