Hi Rony, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Rony wrote: > I will check it out. There must be some grep option to look for absolute > values.
Since you are storing each name on a line by itself, you can use: grep -q "^$USER$" present The ^ and $ match the beginning and the end of the line respectively. Read the "Regular Expressions" section of the grep man page for more information. Regards Osric Xavier Fernandes -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

