Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?

[Kent West]

Kent West wrote:
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kent West  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

A programmer would know this . . , but not me  ;-)
I'm using a script to build a file by concatenating portions of two 
other files. Then end result needs to be checked to make sure a 
certain word shows up in a line.

I know that "grep programm <this email message>" would return the line:
A programmer would know this . . , but not me  ;-)
but what I want returned is just the word "programmer".
  


BTW, why not simply
    if grep -q word file
    then
        # word was present in file
        bla
        bla
    fi
 

My test script:
#!/bin/bash
if [ `grep -q icewm /home.local/snert/.xinitrc` ] ; then
        echo "Yep"
else
        echo "Nope"
fi

and the result:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home.local/snert> ./test.sh
Nope

But removing the "-q" seems to do the trick.
Thanks!
--
Kent
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