[ale] shell scripting

[Ken Nagorski]

Sure, 
	grep prints it if you find it. I wanted the ones grep didn't
find. That is why I was using the echo, if you don't find a match let me
know. 

Thanks
Ken

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:

> Ken Nagorski wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	Anyone know how to say if this is in this file don't do anything
> > else print it our? Does that make sense? I know I have done this before
> > with a shell script but I can't get it to work now. Here is the script
> > it is not working however...
> > 	i am trying to use the exit status but that doesn't seem to be
> > right.
> > 
> > Thank you
> > Ken
> > -----------snip------------------------------
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > for d in `less domains`
> > do
> >  `grep $d shared-ips`
> >  if [ $?==127 ]
> >   then
> >    echo "$d"
> >  fi
> > done
> 
> Unless I misunderstood the question, I think you're making it harder 
> than it really is:
> 
> for rec in $(<domains); do
> 
>    # note, grep will print it if you find it, so you don't need the echo 
> statement you have above
> 
>    grep $rec shared-ips
> 
> done
> 
> 

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