Re: [tlug] grep sort of thing

[David Blomberg <dblomber@example.com>]

> file | grep WORD | wc -l
> > 
> > or are you trying to print the word for each time it appears?
> > 
> 
> No, the search expression is a regular expression so it may be different
> each match, in this case it /will/ be different each time.
> 
> I think Bruce's idea is the better than anything I've come up with.
> 
> Brett
Never one to let something go:

#!/bin/sh
export TEST_VAL="`cat $2 | grep $1 | wc -l`"
if [ $TEST_VAL -gt 0 ]; then
echo $1
exit 0
fi

echo "word not present in file"