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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers grep to handle a 0 result Post 302105860 by ocelot on Monday 5th of February 2007 09:17:38 AM
Old 02-05-2007
grep to handle a 0 result

Hi guys,

I have the following grep command in a script to search through a file for a string and return its count, and it works fine for when the string exists:

grep "string" file.txt | wc

However, sometimes the result will be 0 and I want the script to take this as the result. Right now it is just dumping out with a "child process exited abnormally"

How can I get around this so that if the result is 0 then the script doesnt dump out and takes the result as 0?

thanks
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep is used to invoke the grep on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is speci- fied, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If zgrep is invoked as zegrep or zfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example: for sh: GREP=fgrep zgrep string files for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; zgrep string files) AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), zdiff(1), zmore(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1) ZGREP(1)
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