pbpaste and grep with Mac X11

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello,
Here is what I am trying to do:

1) Copy a string to the pasteboard using Command-C
2) Search for the string in a file in X11.

Command-C
pbaste | grep - filname (does NOT work)

What is the correct syntax?

Thanks!

2

Try:

grep -f <(pbpaste) filname
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bash-3.2$ grep -f < (pbpaste) Product.txt
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
bash-3.2$ grep -f < pbpaste Product.txt 
bash: pbpaste: No such file or directory

It doesn't seem to work with or without parentheses.

4

There is no space between < and (

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That did it.. thanks so much!