grep not recognizing a variable when searching

[McCracken, Mark]

I have defined a variable and then I am trying to search for the variable in
a file.

 

set abc = `cat file`

set i = 1

grep $abc[$i] file2

 

A status of 1 is returned.

 

The above works for me on UNIX, is there another way I should be doing this
for Cygwin?

 

Thanks for any help.

 

 

 

 

Mark McCracken

Canadian Hydro graphic Service/Service Hydrographique du Canada

Bedford Institute of Oceanography/Institut Océanographique de Bedford

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