RE: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

["James Wu" <JWu@eyereturn.com>]

> I want a script that will read the file and look for the name 
> "fred", and if it's found, leave the file alone, but if it's 
> not found, to add the name "fred" to the bottom of the file.

No need for awk/sed. Something like this should work.

#!/bin/bash
i=`grep fred FILENAME.TXT | wc -l`
if [ $i == "0" ]
then
        echo "fred" >> FILENAME.TXT
fi

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> Any help appreciated. Thanks!
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