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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help on unix scripting. I am at hello world level. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Post 302687247 by zaxxon on Thursday 16th of August 2012 08:52:12 AM

08-16-2012

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See elixir_sinari's solution including the date command. You can also leave out the count with -c and just check the return status of grep with $? or go this way, checking if the variable $VAR is not empty (to not invoke grep twice:

A tad more elegant:

Code:

VAR="$(grep -i "Invalid Transaction" ULOG.$(date +%m%d%y) 2> /dev/null)"
[ -n "$VAR" ] && \
mail -s "tuxedo info" a@bla.net b@bla.net c@bla.net

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zgrep

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  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  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 the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

																	  ZGREP(1)