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Old 04-22-2009
Data Problem with conditional statement
Hi,

I'm getting a "bad number" error from the following conditional if statement. I understand the results of the grep command are not being treated a an integer but am unsure of the correct syntax. Any help would be appreciated.

if [ "grep -c DT $myoutfile" -gt 0 ]


Thanks
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Old 04-22-2009
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

if [ $(grep -c DT "$myoutfile") -gt 0 ]

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Old 04-22-2009
Thank you. That worked perfectly...
 
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