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Old 11-18-2008
tuathan tuathan is offline
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How to search (grep?) filename for a string and if it contains this then...

Hi i want to write a script that will search a filename e.g. test06abc.txt for a string and if it contains this string then set a variable equal to something:

something like:

var1=0

search <filename> for 06
if it contains 06 then
var1=1
else
var1=0
end if

but in unix script