Mistake...I think the problem is line 26.

egrep $name $2 > /dev/null Need to somehow quote $name.



On Feb 7, 8:11 am, "mside" <watk...@morningside.edu> wrote:
> I have two files which have titles of books.
> I want to check the book titles in one file to see if the title is in
> the other file.
> The book titles have spaces, periods, etc.
>
> I wrote a script but I am having a problem getting the title in a form
> to 'egrep' to the other file.
> Titles examples are like:
> Tom Sawyer
> Tale Of Two Cities
>
> Script is called "check.file.to.file" and is as follows
> and is run check.file.to.file name-of-file-1 name-of-file-2
>
> 1
> 2 if [ "$1" = "" ]
> 3 then
> 4 arg=0
> 5 echo "No args..Args are file-name file-to-check"
> 6 exit
> 7 else
> 8 arg=1
> 9 file1=$1
> 10 fi
> 11
> 12 if [ "$2" = "" ]
> 13 then
> 14 echo "Need 2nd argument for file-to-check"
> 15 exit
> 16 else
> 17 file2=$2
> 18 fi
> 19
> 20 # for name in `cat $file1 | cut -f1 -d' '`
> 21
> 22 for name in `cat $file1`
> 23 do
> 24
> 25 # egrep -w $name $2 > /dev/null
> 26 egrep $name $2 > /dev/null
> 27 grepresult=$?
> 28
> 29
> 30 if (($grepresult == 0))
> 31 then
> 32 echo $name " is IN "$2
> 33 # egrep -w $name $2
> 34 else
> 35 echo $name " NOT in "$2
> 36 fi
> 37
> 38 done
>
> Is seems the problem is at line 32. How do you make the $name
> variable in line 32
> quoted?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Denny Watkins
> Morningside College
> Phone: 712-274-5250
>
> Email: watk...@morningside.edu