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grep not functioning correctly

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Mar 15, 202610096 views
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Problem

I've been happily using grep for many years without any issues, but since today it quit working. During the past hour I tried this and that, but enough is enough, I'm posting the bastard here: On the simplest command like I'm getting this: So does not interpret the first argument as the pattern as …

Error Output

grep 'aaa' file.txt

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Fix for: grep not functioning correctly

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I had something like this in my ~/.profile: But with wrong syntax. Some malformeed argument was being passed to the grep breaking everything down. Removing the line resolved the problem.

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