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I have to test for a number of text strings in a logfile


the problem with the above is that it loops through each word of the 3 text strings and not the full string.

Hope some can help

Cheers

hello,

as ` ` is to substitute commands' output, and there is no command, the loop should never happen.

Use an array.

however, grep can test the whole of the three eror messages at once; whithout a loop.

thanks for the reply.

What I basically need is to count how many times each error string occurs in the last 20 lines of my log file and based then on the size of this number execute different functions.

This could be done by creating a grep statement and variable for every error string, but there is a chance that more error string may be added using a loop would simplify the script

your proposal will accumulate the number of times the errors occur?

cheers

I could also have written the code better

arh... found the solution using IFS (Internal Field Separator) like this will make sure the spaces in the string arguments are ignored or rather I will use "," to split the string instead.

use an array:

nice - thanks