String search and generating file

pssandeep · #1 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009

Hi Gurus,

I have a requirement as below

I have text file a.txt which contains

Code:

hi hello 
process update
status
Output for file Ok to Proceed no issues good
data arrangement

My requirement here is i need to read the file and check for the words
"OK to Proceed" and if it is available need to generate an indicator file called
"Go.txt"

IF else no file should not be generated.

Here one more thing to be considered is, file also contains "Not Ok to Proceed" sometimes if the process is not gone thru well.

Basically i need to generate an indicator file, if the process is OK by searching "Ok to Proceed" string or else not generating the file if it contains "Not ok to Proceed"

I am trying following code but not succesfull upto now

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
DFT_VALUE='OK to Proceed'
ACTUAL_VALUE=`egrep 'OK to Proceed' respectivefolder/a.txt`
if [$DFT_VALUE = $ACTUAL_VALUE] then
  touch a.txt
else
  exit
fi

Here my problem is how to get only the string from the file to comapre with the variable.

Any suggestions or code will be appreciated

Thanks in advance,
San

Thanks in Advance
Sandeep

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