Hi All,

I am just learning shell programming,

I need to do the following in my shell script.

Search a given log file for two\more strings.

If the the two\more strings are found then write it to a outputfile else
if only one of the string is found, write the found string in one output file
and others in other output file.

Is it possible to do it? If so please share the code

Thanks

Amit

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!

Hi Lami

Thanks for the info. My requirement is some what like this...can you shed somemore light on this

I am trying to write a shell script which will scan a log file for three strings ie success image1, success image2, success image3.
My shell is tcsh

If all the 3 strings are found then insert the 3 strings to a file1 and send mail to developers with file1

If all 3 are note found copy the strings to a file2 and send file2 to developers.

Similarly, if string image1 & image2 are found and image3 missing...then insert the string image1 & image2 to file-1 and insert the string image3 to file-2 and send a mail attaching both file1 & file2 to developer.

I tried if - else but that is making the scrip longer,

Sorry for the troubles

Amit