issue with grep command

[Rhodri James]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:51:20 +0100, Jul <sneakyelf at gmail.com> wrote:

> in tcsh terminal i have the following line of code
>
> cat fileName.txt | grep "a"
>
> which extracts all the instances of "a" from the file in the
> terminal..
>
> however when i am trying to create a txt while, i am unable to do so
> for some reason..this is the syntaxt i am using --
>
> cat fileName.txt | frep "a" > a.txt
>
>
> file then appears in the folder, however, it can no be opened because
> "the file is not in the right format"..
>
> does anybody know how to correct this problem?
>
> thanks so much

This has sod all to do with Python, but I have to ask: *what* complains
that "the file is not in the right format"?  Also, I don't think you
meant "frep" that second time, but your typing is sufficiently awful
I can't be sure.

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