Shell Programming and Scripting

I am having a text file sample.txt

The contents of the sample.txt is as follows.
____________
aaa,bbb

ccc,ddd
____________

first line contains aaa,bbb
second line is blank
third line contains ccc,ddd

Now I need to write a script to search in the file sample.txt. If it contains blank as in second line. It have to throw the error message "invalid file" else nothing.

I have achieved this by reading line by line. But due to performance issue, I need to scan in the whole file whether it contains blank line. If so i need to throw the error message "invalid file".

Can anyone help me out.

Thanks in advance.

Krishnakanth Manivannan

Here is one solution, using awk:

Code:

awk '!NF{exit 1}' sample.txt || echo 'Invalid File'

Code:

 
grep -v . sample.txt && echo "Invalid File" || echo "Valid File"

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And if your grep supprot -m option, then you can try the below

Code:

 
grep -m 1 -v . sample.txt && echo "Invalid File" || echo "Valid File"

so, whenever the first empty line (means no space also) was captured, it will not go further and scan your text file.

Next solution is answer for question "Which files include empty lines or only spaces ?"

Code:

# line length 0 or line include only spaces
emptylines=$(  grep -l -e "^$" -e "^ *$"      *.txt   )
for f in $emptylines
do
        echo "Invalid File:$f"
done

Code:

 
"^ .*"

The above pattern will match " abc" also