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Old 12-18-2012
Testing for one word in a file
I am trying to test the output of a file. What I have so far is this:

Code:
if [[ `cat /tmp/filex` == "space - Compacted" ]]; then echo "yes";fi

The problem with this is it works but I only want it to print out if the file contains the word "Compacted." The == sign means identical or equal to so it won't work. I tried ~ but that doesn't work. Is there another option I am missing?

Any help is appreciated!
Last edited by Scott; 12-18-2012 at 07:10 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 12-18-2012
Why don't you use grep?
Code:
if [ $( grep -c "Compacted" /tmp/filex ) -ne 0 ]
then
      echo "Yes"
fi

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Old 12-18-2012
You're right
I got hung up on the file's contents rather than scanning for this one word! Thanks! It works. If you do know though just for additional information, if there is a character similar to ~ that I could have used in that test command that would be great. If not, or if there is no such character it does not matter; the code works all the same
# 4  
Old 12-18-2012
Using '~' to search for string with awk:

Code:
awk '{if ($0 ~ /Compacted/) print "yes" }' /tmp/filex

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# 5  
Old 12-19-2012
Can be written like this
Code:
awk '/Compacted/ {print "yes"}' /tmp/filex

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