Hi, Thank you for your answer. After a little more research, I found out that the line containing the word 'gamito' is huge and yet it scrolls so fast in the screen that I can barely see it. I tried redirecting the output of the grep to a file and that huge line went in to it. So, I've tried a double grep: $ grep 'gamito' file | grep 'gamito' but without success. Well, my question now is, how do I get the word 'gamito' alone from the file ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Dan Halbert <halbert at everyzing.com> wrote: > > > > > If I run > > $ grep 'gamito' file > > > What is the return status (echo ??). If you had a file with > "gamito\r " then it would print what looked like a blank line, I > think. So is this maybe a Mac file? Which version of grep, etc., etc. Do > "where grep". > > > > it returns nothing. Yet, if I run > > $ grep -c 'gamito' file > > > > It returns 1 which is right. > > > >