Shell Programming and Scripting

var=`grep -i "failed" $FILE`

total failed :0
total failed :0
total failed : 0

var=`grep -i "failed" $FILE`

total failed :0
total failed :0
total failed :0
total failed : 0

[[ $(grep -c "failed" $FILE) -gt 0 ]] && mail here

#!/bin/bash
#Date
#Author
#Purpose : Alert on failed count > 0
#Usage   : ./alertonfail.sh <file>

#File with the failed count
FILE=$1

#Verify if the file paramter was set and if the file exists
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
        echo "Usage   : ./alertonfail.sh <file>"
elif [ ! -e $FILE ]; then
        echo "File does not exist"
fi

#Take the count for each line
NRFAILED=`cut -d: -f2 $FILE | tr -d ' '`

#Verify the values for each line
for i in $NRFAILED; do
      if [ $i -gt 0 ]; then
        echo "Failure detected, the value is "$i  | mail -s "FAILURE ALERT" email@adresss.com
        #echo "Mail sent for failure > 0, Actual value is $i"
      fi
done

#END

cat failures.txt | awk -F':' '{gsub(/ */,"",$2); print $2}' | xargs -I var bash -c 'if [ var -gt 0 ];then echo "Value is" var | mail -s "FAILURE" email@address.com ;fi'

for var in `grep "total failed" $FILE|tr ":" " "|tr -s " "|cut -f3 -d" "`
do
   if [ $var -gt 0 ]
   then
      send your message here using $var
   fi
done

awk -F: '/total failed/ && $2+0!=0 {exit 1}' file || mail ...