On Mar 2, 9:55 am, lm7...@gmail.com (Matt) 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?
Yet another way:
perl -0777 -nlE ' say /mystring/ ? "yes" : "no" ' file
See: perldoc perlrun for explanation of -0777
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