Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:03:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> Subject: Re: if then statement with grep Message-ID: <XFMail.20010925210314.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010926111238.C99595@k7.mavetju.org>
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On 26-Sep-2001 Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:56:43AM +1000, BSD Freak wrote: >> if `grep "expected line" /var/log/mylogfile` does NOT return something >> then >> mail -s "Alert" me@mycompany.com >> otherwise don't bother me > > if [ ! -z "`grep "expected line" /var/log/mylogfile`" ]; then > ... do your stuff here ... > fi Actually, a simple "if ! grep ..." should do the same thing. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Date: 25-Sep-2001 Time: 21:01:59 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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