Question

Need help with the while command. I want to run a command if there’s a $sitename in playlist.txt

Here’s my bash:

   cat playlist.txt | grep -e "$sitename" |  sed -e "s/^.*\(http:.*"$sitename".*flv\).*$/\1/g" | sort | uniq > checklist.txt
cat checklist.txt

while [ " While can find $sitename in checklist.txt" ]; do
                qa
         done

that’s what i have tried already

while [ -n "$echopl" ]; do
                    qa
             done

while [ 'grep -q $string checklist.txt >/dev/null' ]; do
                qa
         done

while [  "grep -q "$string" checklist.txt" ]; do
                qa2
         done
while grep -q "$string" checklist.txt; do
    qa
done

while grep -q '$string' checklist.txt; do
    qa
done


if grep -q "$string" checklist.txt ; then
  qa
fi

Temporarily I put many if commands 🙁

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Answer 1

if grep "$string" checklist.txt >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
  qa
fi