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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using GREP in IF Statement Post 302811511 by Ariean on Thursday 23rd of May 2013 03:36:56 PM
Old 05-23-2013
Is there a way for me to combine a grep command and an expression statement and pass the result to IF statement like below. I am still trying to make the below script work.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
PATH="/db_apps/informatica/infa951/server/infa_shared/BWParam/wf_GenerateXMLDataFile.txt"
UNINUM="92500"
echo $UNINUM

        if  /bin/grep -q "UNINUM" $PATH -a -z ${UNINUM}
      #if  [ `/bin/grep -q "UNINUM" $PATH` -a -z ${UNINUM} ]
        then
                echo "success"
        else
                echo "failure"
        fi

---------- Post updated at 03:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:32 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ariean
Is there a way for me to combine a grep command and an expression statement and pass the result to IF statement like below. I am still trying to make the below script work.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
PATH="/db_apps/informatica/infa951/server/infa_shared/BWParam/wf_GenerateXMLDataFile.txt"
UNINUM="92500"
echo $UNINUM

        if  /bin/grep -q "UNINUM" $PATH -a -z ${UNINUM}
      #if  [ `/bin/grep -q "UNINUM" $PATH` -a -z ${UNINUM} ]
        then
                echo "success"
        else
                echo "failure"
        fi

I think i got it

Code:
#!/bin/bash
PATH="/db_apps/informatica/infa951/server/infa_shared/BWParam/wf_GenerateXMLDataFile.txt"
UNINUM="92500"
echo $UNINUM

        if  ! `/bin/grep -q "UNINUM" $PATH` && [ ! -z ${UNINUM} ]
        then
                echo "success"
        else
                echo "failure"
        fi

 

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