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Originally Posted by felipe.vinturin

Have you checked: "grep -i" option?

Code:

echo "Enter name to search"
read n
countFound=`grep -ic "${n}" file`
if [ ${countFound} -ne 0 ]
then
     echo "name found"
else
     echo "Not Found"
fi

for this code im getting error like Grep:0652-033 Cannot open name

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