Shell Programming and Scripting

curleb was referring to:

Code:

if [ $? -ne 0]; then

which should be:

Code:

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

That your egrep always returns 1 indicates that you if statement if actually fine, but that your egrep is not finding anything.

I could find no reference to \s in the manual, although I presume it to mean whitespace (or space)...

If that piece of code is in a script; try to rrun the commands interactively. I found some differences in the behaviour of egrep (up to a total freeze !) while running interactively or in a script.

try out...
$ echo "Status: 0000" | egrep "\bStatus: *([0]+)";
Status: 0000

gives me the correct output..as proposed by scott above....

Hi,
It is giving me variable syntax error and if type directly on the Unix Window, does not show any output

On Solaris 10:

Code:

-> echo "Status: 0000" | egrep "\bStatus: *([0]+)" && echo $? || echo $?
1

-> echo "Status: 0000" | egrep "Status: *([0]+)" && echo $? || echo $?  
Status: 0000
0

Hi,
I have Solaris 8 Sun Blade Ultra 150 system. And, I tried your command in the Unix Window. Its still showing "Variable Syntax". Thanks for your support though. Please help how do I get over this error.

Basically, I get huge data as a return value. In that data this "Status" is present. hence, I want to grep on this status and update the user accordingly.

Okay:

1) What shell are you using? ksh?

2) What exactly do you mean by 'huge data as a return value'? Do you have a terminal output that you can post, either for the problem we're wading through here...or the original 'huge data' that you're trying to resolve...?