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Thanks for all of ur responses
Its working with grep.

I have one more question on this, suppose if i want to go and check the text file based on line no For example, I need to go to the line 15 in text file and then check for the String "OK to Proceed" or "Not ok to Proceed" because
my text file will contain a comment on 10th line with "Not Ok to Proceed"

So either i need to go based on line number or need to check for the second occurence of the "Not Ok to Proceed"

Please advice

Thanks in Advance,
Sandeep

You can do various things, such as:

1. Strip the comment, and pipe only appropriate input to grep as

Code:

sed 's/^#//' | grep '<PATTERN>'

2. Extract part of file, using tail or head as:
tail -n +11 FILE | grep '<PATTERN>'

3. or search for 2nd occurrence and so on.

Select an appropriate way, by analyzing your data.

Not clear

Code:

awk '!/Not/ && /Ok to Proceed/ && NR==15{print "" > "Go.txt"}' file

Code:

#!/bin/bash  -v
grep "OK to proceed" check.txt
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
 touch "Ok.txt"
fi

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this can be written as,

Code:

grep "OK to proceed" check.txt 1>/dev/null && touch "Ok.txt"

You can change the path to be


sed -n '/Ok to Proceed/ p' input_file | nawk '($0 !~ "Not") { "touch /the/path/of/file/GO.txt" | getline }'

BR

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to change the path use the above bold phrase