Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am reading a directory that has a list of jar files. I am searching these files for specific keywords. What i would like to do is write the address of the jar file to a new file if the search result is returned as false. For example;

Code:

 
/home/user/JarDirectory/Examplefile.jar

is the file i am searching.

Code:

 
 
cat $JarDirectory | jar -tvf $i | grep -v car

where $i is the current jar file being read.

If the grep -v command returns false i.e. the word "car" was not present in the file, then the address

Code:

 
/home/user/JarDirectory/Examplefile.jar

is written to a new file instead of the actual content of the file itself.

i am currently using an if statement with a test case e.g.

Code:

 
if [ $? -ne 0]
then
"write address of current jar file to Newfile"
fi

However i cannot get the logic right and i keep writing the content of the jar file to a newfile instead of the address of the jar file itself.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Apologies in advance if code was not bracketed properly.

Imho this line does not make sense.
What is the value of $JarDirectory ?
Does it point to a file or a directory?
If it is a file, what is in the file?

Are you looking for the string "car" in the name of a file in each archive or are you looking for the string "car" in the contents of each file in each archive.

Hi Methly,

is a path leading to a directory that contains the jar files.

I am looking for the string "car" in the contents of each file in the directory.

I have it solved now though.

Thanks for looking at my thread anyway.