Shell Programming and Scripting

if [[ $line = *sometext* ]]; then

Missed the blanks around the [[ ]]...you can figure out the other stuff.

Thanks a lot sauron and giannicello. As you can see I'm a newbie.
I tried

#!/bin/sh
FILENAME=$1
while read line; do
if [[ $line = *sometext* ]]; then echo "$line"; fi
done < $FILENAME

and I still get the error:

line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
line 5: `done < $FILENAME


I'll continue playing with it and update here if I can fix it. Thanks


Ohh my...
I was using cygwin and I used d2u for my txt file but not for my sh file. I thought it was OK since I was using vim to edit it. After using d2u for the .sh file too, it worked correctly.
Thanks again for the quick answers, I liked this community very much!

don't think Bourne shell likes the [[.

try this:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

FILENAME=$1

if [ ! -f "$FILENAME" ]; then
  echo usage: $0 file_name
  exit 1
fi

while read line; do

  if [[ $line = *sometext* ]]; then
    echo "$line"
  fi

done < $FILENAME