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

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

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


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