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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to read from a file in unix Post 302248857 by Annihilannic on Monday 20th of October 2008 01:36:22 AM
Old 10-20-2008
Sorry, I forgot the filename, didn't I. :-) I also forgot the closing quote. Try it like this:

Code:
var=$(awk -F= '$1 == "no of head" { print $2 }' data.txt)
if [[ -n "$var" ]]
then
    echo found value $var
else 
    echo found nothing!
fi

 

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