How do I cut a line with a rectangle using the Pathfinder

I'm a complete newb in Ai (many years in Ps).
I'm trying to cut off (delete) a rectangular section of a grid that is made of many lines. I keep getting the message, "The filter produced no results. Please select two intersecting paths."
In its simplest form, I have a stroked line (a path) and a filled rectangle (also a path). The rectangle is on top of the line.
I select both of the objects and choose Minus Front from the Pathfinder Panel.
And I get the message "The filter produced no results. Please select two intersecting paths." I've tried all of the options in the Pathfinder pane.
What I'd like to happen is to have the section of the line that is overlapped by the rectangle deleted, so I'd end up with two lines that looked like this:
If the rectangle overlapped the end of the line, I'd like the section where they overlap deleted, and I'd end up with one line.
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I've watched several videos about the Pathfinder, read a bunch of posts, and I'm still clueless.
Thanks!

The Minus operation you're choosing is for shapes.  Which means they can't be simple stroked line-segments.  You have to expand the line segment into a shape such as a very thin very long rectangle and NOW you can apply the Minus Front operation.  Try and see if you get the same results I got.  Then you will end up with a shape which is probably not what you want but instead you can delete the portions of the shape or even average the thin line segments together to get a center-line grouped object.

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