On 2010-04-08 03:03, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
On 08.04.2010 00:49, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-07 16:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
Mart's method is the shell way. The 3GL Way is:
grep -w "$NAME" "$FILE"
TMP=$?
if [ "$TMP" = "1" ];
That should be:
if [ "$TMP" = "0" ];
then
echo -e "$NAME\n" >> "$FILE"
fi
nope, the OP wanted 'if $NAME is NOT found in file, ...'
Correct. grep return 1 if it *is* found.
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