michael wrote:
> echo Usage\: $0 [string file]
> echo To loop until \$string found in \$file
Better to quote the entire line. Because [...] is special to the
shell the [string file] will try to file glob match against files in
the local directory. It is unlikely to match in this case but
On 25/04/2008, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> while [[ `grep -e ${STRING} ${FILE} |wc -l` -lt 1 ]];do
This should fix it:
while [[ `grep -e "${STRING}" "${FILE}" |wc -l` -lt 1 ]];do
The shell still replaces variable within "" quotes, but not within ''.
e.g. this:
$ TEST="Testing
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 16:02 +, Mark Clarkson wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:52:14 +0100, michael
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Folks, I wish to do something like the following in a bash script but
> > can't work out the correct incantation of escape chars etc so any advice
> > welcome! ie w
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On 04/24/08 10:52, michael wrote:
> Folks, I wish to do something like the following in a bash script but
> can't work out the correct incantation of escape chars etc so any advice
> welcome! ie what is it I need to do for env var STRING and the grep
>
Folks, I wish to do something like the following in a bash script but
can't work out the correct incantation of escape chars etc so any advice
welcome! ie what is it I need to do for env var STRING and the grep
command so that grep -e $STRING handles the space in STRING correctly.
Ta, Michael
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