D-Man wrote:
>sed "s/Title/$TITLE/g" title.html >> file.txt &&
>
>Also, I'm not sure why you have double & at the end of the line. I
>think you want to run sed in the foreground, not the background. I
>don't understand what the second & does.
& by itself mean s to run in the background
&& means run the next pipeline only if the current command has a zero
exit status
|| means run the next pipeline if the current command has a non-zero
exit status
Thus
grep -qs 'some garbage' input_file && echo Found it || echo Not there
--
Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47
GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C
========================================
"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of
judgment to be punished;" II Peter 2:9
