Hi, Am Samstag, den 26.03.2011, 23:18 +0530 schrieb Osric Fernandes: > 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.
as discussed in the meeting, this is not sufficient. Safer would be $ fgrep -qx "$USER" present Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: [email protected]
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