Shell Programming and Scripting

what's the version of the grep being used?

( my reference ) -q option is available in GNU grep 2.5.1

Hi matrixmadhan,


i dont have much idea on the version, if u dont mind please tell how can fine the version of the GREP

basically iam oracle dev. u can understand my prob.

thanks
SAIC

Hi

With out _q option ,any other options for this.

thanks
SAIC

to find version of grep

Code:

grep --v

yes there is,

Code:

grep "search_string" filename 2>/dev/null 1>&2
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "search_string found"
else
echo "search_string not found"
fi

Hi Matrix
i have tred follwing code, but it showing some error,please clarify me this.


echo "give the path where we can search the file and the string"
read path
echo -e "Give your inputs here, first filename, followed by the string with a space"
read -a file_string
echo "========================================================================"
echo -e "Here is your required output \n"
for i in `find "$path" -name "${file_string[0]}*"`
do
cat $i | grep -iq "${file_string[1]}" 2>/dev/null 1>&2
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "search string found"
else
echo "search string not found"
fi
done


ERROR:./srch0.sh
give the path where we can search the file and the string
/
-e Give your inputs here, first filename, followed by the string with a space
./srch0.sh[7]: read: bad option(s)
========================================================================
-e Here is your required output
./srch0.sh[13]: syntax error at line 13 : `for' unmatched

thanks
SAic