I'm trying to write this script for an assignment - it's only the second one I've written so bear with me.
As a part of this script, I need to be able to check if the first argument given matches the first word of file. If it does, exit with an error message, if it doesn't, append the arguments to the file. I understand how to write the
if statement, but not how to use
grep within a script. I understand that
grep will look something like this
grep ^$1 schemas.txt
I feel like this should be much easier than I am making it. Any help appreciated.
I'm getting an error too many arguments on the
if statement. I got rid of the space between
grep-q and then got an error binary operator expected. I've been poking around at it, but I don't see what it sees.
if [ grep -q ^$1 schemas.txt ] then echo "Schema already exists. Please try again" exit 1 else echo "$@" >> schemas.txt fi