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Old 11-22-2009
Search a specific string

Hi,

I have following requirement. Pls suggest.
To search a string in a file which is combination of character and number(always 9 digit, but numeric). if found then caputure the exit return code as 0 else 1 , if 0 then next job can be triggerd. If exit code is 1, should return a failure notice.

character never changes. Number (9 digits) changes time to time.

e.g string "The maxinum number genrated : 123456789"
# 2  
Old 11-22-2009
Code:
if [ "`grep "The maxinum number genrated :" $FILE `" ="" ] ; then
   exit 1
else 
  exit 0
fi


Last edited by rdcwayx; 11-22-2009 at 03:17 AM..
# 3  
Old 11-22-2009
Deleting all files from a directory with .CON extension

My requirement is to delete all file names which are having .CON extension from a particular directory.Please help with a script in how to do that?..Please help..

Thanks in advance..
# 4  
Old 11-22-2009
Thanks for your reply but thats doesn't work for me. It displays nothing in the screen i hit ctl c to come out the script.
# 5  
Old 11-22-2009
simply
Code:
grep -E "The maxinum number generated : [0-9]{9}$" $FILE 2>&1 >/dev/null && {
   # do next job
} || {
   exit 1
}

# 6  
Old 11-22-2009
Hello daPeach Is that woking for you. I tried to execute your's script but i have no idea why this not executing for me.
# 7  
Old 11-22-2009
Hi zooby,

did you rewrite it, changing the comment "# do next job" to the command you want to process?

using ksh/zsh/bash
Code:
echo "foo
foobarbaz : 123456789
bar" | grep -E "foobarbaz : [0-9]{9}$" 2>&1 >/dev/null && {
   echo OK
} || {
   echo KO
}

gives OK.

what shell do you use?
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