Hugo Mills wrote:
>
> I have a thought... is this program normally run interactively? If
> so, does it present a countdown of remaining time or bytes? If so,
> it's quite likely that it's using CR, reverse tabs, or other control
> characters to overwrite the previous line. If it's doing that, you'll
> probably find that grep isn't handling the output right.
>
> You could try something like this:
>
> program | tr [[:cntrl:]] \\n | grep -E -v remaining[[:space:]]*$
>
> Hugo.
>
Yes it does present a countdown and the "... remaining" only appears on
the one line. I will give your suggestion a try tomorrow as the computer
it runs on is down now.
Thank you,
Leo
