On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Parag Kalra <paragka...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry for the top post. I should have done bottom post. :(
# Untested
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> open my $fh, '<', my_file;
> while(<$fh>){
> if ($_ !~ /my_string/) {
> # Do something
> }
> }
>
> The other way would be on shell -
>
> # Untested
> grep my_string my_file
> if [ $? -eq 1 ]
> then
> echo "Do something"
> fi
> ~Parag
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Matt <lm7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a simple way to test if a file does not contain a
>> string. This is on a linux box.
>>
>> if myfile does not contain mystring {
>> #do_something;
>> }
>>
>> The file is basically a list of names and I want to test that a
>> certain name is not in there. Is there an easy way to do that?
>>
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