Grep Write Error Invalid Argument
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commands in Windows cmd.exe, you may encounter strange error messages like this: > ls | grep … ls: write error: Invalid argument The first command reports a write linux echo write error invalid argument error but the error is really in the second command after the echo write to 1 failed invalid argument pipe symbol. You may also encounter a similar write error if the wrong command is found in your echo ds1307 0x68 > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-1/new_device bash: echo: write error: invalid argument PATH variable. For instance, Windows and GnuWin32 both have a find and sort command which support different command-line options, so depending on the order of directories listed in your PATH
Cat Write Error Invalid Argument
variable, one version or the other is used. If you enter the wrong command-line options for these commands, they won't start and cause the command earlier in the chain to report some sort of I/O error. Posted by Kam-Hung Soh at 09:00 Reactions: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: GnuWin, Windows Cmd Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search Followers Subscribe To Software Salariman Posts Atom Posts Comments Atom Comments Labels AJAX (1) Android (6) Annoyances (37) Apache (1) Blogger (7) C# (1) CPlusPlus (3) CSharp (4) CSS (12) Database (13) DotNet (4) Facebook (3) Firefox (49) Game (3) GameMaker (1) Gawk (3) GnuWin (18) Google (11) Google-Sheets (1) Graphics (8) Greasemonkey (8) Groovy (3) Internet Explorer (14) Java (12) Javascript (20) jQuery (9) Lotus Notes (3) Miscellaneous (34) MS-Access (8) MS-Excel (31) MS-Outlook (7) MS-Visio (1) MS-Word (1) MySQL (3) Nethack (6) Networking (7) OO-Calc (4) Optimization (1) Oracle (11) Oracle Hyperion (8) OTRS (1) Perl (6) PHP (6) PowerShell (18) Programming (20) Python (12) Reviews (15) Ruby (3) SharpDevelop (3) Software (45) Spam (7) SQL (1) Stylish (8) Subversion (1) SVG (16) VB.Net (1) VB/VBA/VBScript (21) Vim (2) Visual Studio Express (4) Web (11) Weblogic (1) Windows (61) Windows Cmd (22) Yahoo (1) Blog Archive ► 2016 (3) ► June (1) ► May (1) ► April (1) ► 2015 (6) ► November (2) ► October (1) ► August (1)
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going wrong? Moderator: DosItHelp Post new topic Reply to topic Page 1 of 3 [ 33 posts ] Go to http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3586 page 1 2 3 Next Print view Previous topic | Next topic Author Message taripo Post subject: Why is this GREP going wrong?PostPosted: 27 Jul 2012 10:06 Offline Joined: 01 Aug https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2011666 2011 13:48 Posts: 203 [edit by Ed Dyreen] added code tags.If I remove the >g then it outputs fine, but I want to redirect to a file called g.Notice that it invalid argument -works- when I remove the >gCode: Select all W:\>echo "f" | grep -oP "(?=\")."""W:\>echo dsftree="f"dfd | grep -oP "(?=\")."""W:\>echo a"f"a | grep -oP "(?=\")."""W:\>See, that is the output it gives and I have no issue with that. I just want to redirect that output into a file.This is not a regex question.What is going on here that the redirect fails?Code: Select all W:\>echo "f" write error invalid | grep -oP "(?=\")." >ggrep: >g: Invalid argumentThe process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.W:\>echo a"f"a | grep -oP "(?=\")." >ggrep: >g: Invalid argumentThe process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.W:\>echo dsftree="f"dfd | grep -oP "(?=\")." >ggrep: >g: Invalid argumentW:\>--interestingly this doesn't work (putting round brackets around it)Code: Select all W:\>(echo dsftree="f"dfd | grep -oP "(?=\")." )." ) was unexpected at this time.W:\>Here's another thing I tried, no luckCode: Select all W:\>(echo dsftree="f"dfd | grep -oP "(?=\").") >g.") >g was unexpected at this time.W:\>What's going on and what can I do about it? To redirect the output to a file! Top Profile Reply with quote foxidrive Post subject: Re: Why is this GREP going wrong?PostPosted: 27 Jul 2012 10:50 Offline Expert Joined: 10 Feb 2012 02:20 Posts: 6008 You have mismatched double quotes by the look of it.Can grep use /x22 to replace a quote like SED can? Top Profile Reply with quote taripo Post subject: Re: Why is this GREP going wrong?PostPosted: 27 Jul 2012 11:02 Offline Joined: 01 Aug 2011 13:48 Posts: 203 Yes you can do \x22 and that's nice, an
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