Re: shell script error

Steven,

Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:00:08 -0600
From: "Steven Buehler" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I hope this is the right list to ask this on. I am creating a shell script
for something and the following line (whether run from the script or the
command line) gives me an error:
if [ ! -z /bin/cat /tmp/BACKUP/tmp | /bin/grep 'not accepted' ] ; then echo
hi; else echo no; fi

Yup - it's all inside test brackets, and that's expecting a single argument. You'd have to put it inside backticks. However, a simpler, cleaner version would be:
if [ `grep -c "not accepted" /tmp/BACKUP/tmp` -gt 0 ]; then
echo yep
else
echo nope
fi

mark

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