I am new to shell scripting and I am trying to figure out the following.
How to search a file for a line containing a particular string and copy that line to a new file if the line is present?
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I am new to shell scripting and I am trying to figure out the following.
How to search a file for a line containing a particular string and copy that line to a new file if the line is present?
This would create a new file or empty an existing file.
This would create a new file or append found string to an existing file.
Nota:
"string"is a regex. Take a look atman grepfor syntax.