Answer by Steven Penny for Bash Script errors when trying to grep -v -q in if...
An if statement will accept anything that produces exit status, so either a shell builtin like [ or test - or a disk file like grep. You can use both: if [ "$(grep -c '*' file)" = 0 ] then echo 'star...
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I'm trying to write a script that does something when the read line does not include a * symbol in the line. I've tried the following with no success: if [ grep -v -q '*' ] which results in a too many...
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