I think your script needs a couple tweaks. The initial pattern you're searching for with grep should be surrounded by quotes. And there's an easier way to see the result of the grep command by using $?.
Quote:
From the man page for grep:
-q
Quiet. Nothing is written to the standard output. grep exits with status 0 if an input line is selected. This provides a quick and easy method of testing if a pattern or string exists in a group of files.
Hi,
I'd like to grep a variable that I saved in the program.
Like
grep '0\$variable1' file1
Does someone know what's wrong with this command?
Thanks a lot! (2 Replies)
Hello! I think this should be an easy solution. I have a large file with many fields of data. The first field has a unique identifier (a subject number) for every record for a chunk of data. Something like this:
There were ten experimental conditions (ec), but the ec is identified by only... (11 Replies)
All I want to do is find out if the string 'NO' is in a file by checking for a return code of 0 if there is a match. The grep works fine on the command line directly naming the file but I am obviously not using the correct syntax within the shell script as I consistently get the error message
... (5 Replies)
Hey guys,
I'm attempting to compare the contents of two files that are not identical on a Solaris 10 box. We are under audit and I need to do some comparisons of our application accounts with our unix accounts. I essentially want to pull a line from one file and search the second for an equal... (1 Reply)
how can I use grep with a variable to find a value?
cat data.out
Hello World
grep "Hello World" data.out
Hello World ## Value found
I want to do something like this but can't seem to get it to work any
suggestions would be appreciated.
var="Hello World"
grep $var data.out (3 Replies)
I want to search a text in file but that file is pointing to variable.
ex:
file=there was nothing special
grep "there was nothing" $file
but its not working . Can u let me know that how we can use variable($file) in grep command.
Please use code tags (6 Replies)
I have a pattern like:
column "5" is missing
PS: the no is in double quotes.
The number usally changes, so we use a loop to grep.
grep 'column "$number" is missing' filename.txt
But it is not working....
How to solve this? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a loop running until a variable L that is read previously in the full script. I'd like to grep some information in an input file at a line that contains the value of the loop parameter $i.
I've tried to use grep, but the problem is nothing is written in the FILE files. It seems grep... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am looking for the following:
1. A command to 'grep' the variable from a file
2. And check whether the entered variable is empty in that file
I have a file as given below:
IAGLOBAL_USERID=admin
I want to check with a whether the variable contains a value, say here its admin if... (2 Replies)
I've got a file that I'm trying to grep through that looks like this:
alpha1
alpha2
alpha3
beta1
beta2
gamma5
gamma6
gamma7
gamma8
gamma9
and I want the output to only contain the line with the highest value for each, so the output I want is:
alpha3
beta2
gamma9
I also need... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: tiberione
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
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)