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I've made a script. In this script i am gonna look if a file in the /etc/apache2/sites-avalaible/ already exists.
I can do a simple GREP but if i enter to look if "www" already exists it gives me a message 'File alredy exists'! Because grep also looks at part of the filenames.
[EXAMPLE]
in the directory is a file named www-test so if i grep for 'www' he also finds www-test.
[QUESTION]
Can i change so that the script only searches for the full entry in that directory and doesn't look for part of the filenames?
[MY SCRIPT]
while true; do
echo -n "Which Domain: "
read DOMAIN
if test -z "$DOMAIN"; then
echo "You didnt entered a Domain!"
elif ls -als /etc/apache2/sites-available/ |grep $DOMAIN; then
echo "Domain already exists!"
else
echo "ok!"
break;
fi
Can you post the script with the "test -f" statement? Maybe there is some ambiguity in the logic.
Hereby:
while true; do
echo -n "Which Domain: "
read DOMAIN
if test -z "$DOMAIN"; then
echo "You didn't entered a Domain!"
elif test -f"$DOMAIN"; then
echo "Domain already exists!"
else
echo "ok!"
break;
fi
done
Just a little typo which do not bring to a syntax error. Put a space between -f and "$DOMAIN" and it should do the trick. In the code above the shell interprets -f"$DOMAIN" as a whole string and the test is always true!
Just a little typo which do not bring to a syntax error. Put a space between -f and "$DOMAIN" and it should do the trick. In the code above the shell interprets -f"$DOMAIN" as a whole string and the test is always true!
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