Thank You very much. That did the trick. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cesar Covarrubias > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:14 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: shell script error > > Hello, > > If my shell programming is as good as I hope, you need the following: > > if [ ! -z `/bin/cat /tmp/BACKUP/tmp | /bin/grep 'not accepted'` ] ; > then > echo hi; else echo no; fi > > The -z will apply the the output of the entire line, after the grep. I > am sure if I am wrong, someone will be sure and educate us both and > make > us better shell programmers. > > Very Respectfully, > Cesar Covarrubias > > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:00 -0600, Steven Buehler wrote: > > I hope this is the right list to ask this on. I am creating a shell > script > > for something and the following line (whether run from the script or > the > > command line) gives me an error: > > if [ ! -z /bin/cat /tmp/BACKUP/tmp | /bin/grep 'not accepted' ] ; > then echo > > hi; else echo no; fi > > > > Gives me the following error > > ------------- > > -bash: [: missing `]' > > grep: ]: No such file or directory > > no > > ------------- > > > > If I run the command like the following, it works just fine: > > /bin/cat /tmp/BACKUP/tmp | /bin/grep 'not accepted' > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > Steve > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
