search for key word from a file
 

I have writing a ksh and basically, I want to reach for a file (output.tst) and seach for the key word "MYDB"


doesn't seem to work, what did I do wrong.

Thanks all.

I don't know. Can you do a example?
What must out the if condition?

Sorry, I've just seen this and it confuses me -- what does this do?

sorry if I confused you.

Basically, I want search for the file and look into the file to make sure those two key words are there.

grep -i "word" file ?

look into REGEX as well, that will help out.

I was just confused as to what that command usually returns. I'm new to scripting myself but I would have thought that would result in so I wondered what the dollar was doing? I would expect to see something like

grep would return:

oracle 12689 1 0 Sep05 ? 00:00:09 MYDB

how can I trim everything so I get only "MYDB"?

thx

If you find out let me know, I need o dabble in scripting too.

how can I search for the string within a file?

basically, I want to look in the file output.tst with the string name "MYDB", if it found "MYDB", then do something

MYDB$ $ should look for " " at the end of a string. If I remember correctly.

sorry, I don't get it......

But the result ofwill be nothing since the output ofisDoes the '$' on the front somehow pass the contents of the file instead of its name?

The $ should go at the end so it searches for MYDB. So grep MYDB$ would search for strings ending in MYDB. You can "man grep" for more rules for it.

But how does piping the result of ls to grep that way result in grep searching the file?

hmm I might not be on the same page as you, i kinda understand what you are asking, but I'm new to this as well, so if i've thrown you off track sorry ;)