Shell Programming and Scripting

THis is my code

Code:

echo "Filter1: " $F1 " file/s"  >> $FILE
for x in `cat cg.txt`; do
echo $x
        z=`grep $x tmp2.txt | wc -l`
        if [ $z -eq 0 ]; then
                echo "\\t" $x ": " $z " file/s" >> $FILE
        fi
done

The bolded line is not working. I want to grep a certain file using the string that got from the file cg.txt.
how am I suppose to access the string from another file, and encapsulate it inside the grep function.

Hi izuma,

The code you hav posted working fine for me .

is it what your expecting ?...

ex :

TEST>cat cg.txt
Rama
seetha

TEST>cat tmp2.txt
Rama seetha dadfdf dgg
fdgdfg
no mtch
Rama dsd lalal

TEST>cat script.sh

for i in `cat cg.txt`
do
z=`grep $i tmp2* | wc -l`
echo "for the string : $i -> $z "
done

TEST>./script.sh

for the string : Rama -> 2
for the string : seetha -> 1