John Oliver wrote:
> I want to grep for a given value, and if that value is found do X, and
> if it isn't found, do Y.  How do I do that?

Because you have two answers already,

$ grep -q string file && echo found || echo not found

This can have Interesting Effects if the ``found block'' has a non-zero
exit code.

-john


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