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# 1  
Old 09-22-2010
Not able to check for entry within file
Hi

I am basically checking if a required entry exists within a file. In the code below I am fetching all directories of the format rel1, rela, rel3..etc..The same entries also exist in the sample log file. I want to check if entry in file1 exists within file2 but it is failing. Can you please help?

Code:
cd /ABC
ls -ld rel* | awk '{print $9}' > /tmp/file1
cat /XYZ/sample.log | awk '{print $3}' > /tmp/file2
for fname in `cat /tmp/file1`
do
if [ grep -Fq "$fname" /tmp/file2  ]
then
echo "Entry exists"
else
echo "Entry doesn't exist"
fi
done

# 2  
Old 09-22-2010
What is failing?
(Looks like the if condition...)
# 3  
Old 09-22-2010
What is failing?
(Looks like the if condition...)
# 4  
Old 09-22-2010
might be because it is going to the else part even though there is an entry in the file
# 5  
Old 09-22-2010
Can you try this without the "-q" option on grep to see if you get any useful error messages printed out?
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