Script not working

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Thu Aug 13 17:25:35 UTC 2009


Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty with a bash script. I want to loop through a file 
> line by line looking for a certain word or phrase to be on a line. When 
> I find the match, I want to load the next line into xclip.
>
> Here is my code so far -
>
> #!/bin/sh
> saved=" "
> while read f
> do
>     echo $f
>     echo $1
>     if  "${1}" = "${saved}" ; then

This has to be
 
 if  [ "${1}" = "${saved}" ] ; then



   Florian
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