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

[Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauenlob@chello.at>]

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, ...'