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Old 11-24-2007
lamilami lamilami is offline
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use if []; then .....else......
use the exit status of grep as condition
grep exits with 0 if the string is found, 1 if not found and 2 if the file is not there.
then use > to redirect your output to a file and >> to append your output to the file.

have fun!