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

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-04-08 03:03, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
> On 08.04.2010 00:49, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 2010-04-07 16:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Mart's method is the shell way.  The 3GL Way is:
> > >
> > > grep -w "$NAME" "$FILE"
> > > TMP=$?
> > > if [ "$TMP" = "1" ];
> > That should be:
> >
> > if [ "$TMP" = "0" ];
> >
> > > then
> > >     echo -e "$NAME\n" >> "$FILE"
> > > fi
> nope, the OP wanted 'if $NAME is NOT found in file, ...'

Correct.  grep return 1 if it *is* found.

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