07-16-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ranjithpr
Hi Panyam,
Your script is nice. But instead of
grep -c "ORA" outlog 1>/dev/null
You can use
grep -q "ORA" outlog
This has the advantage that it will not write any thing on standard out put so no re-direction is required. Also it will exit with success on the first occurance of "ORA", will not search file till the end which is not required.
Thanks Ranjith for the efficient idea
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