Did grep change it's syntax? I need to know...

[James Wilkinson]

I wrote:
> Works fine here, on FC4 (x86_84). Do you have LANG or LC_* set?
> set | grep LANG
> set | grep LC_
> 
> I understand that the ${dir}$1.$$ file is correctly created: you might
> want to have commands after the /bin/mail and before the fi to append
> the date, filename and file contents into a log file somewhere. That way
> you can be pretty sure that everything is working until the /bin/mail.

You might want to direct the set | grep commands to the log file: that
way you know how the environment is set, and you're not guessing.

Come to that, just 
set >> $logfile

Hope this helps,

James.

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