Script help

[Khashru]

I want to write a script that will read a file. the file will contain some login name. If the name is there it will say user is permitted to print other wise not permitted to print.

How can i use this condition in the following script

echo "Enter user name"
read USER
x=`grep $USER user`

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The problem with using grep is that if you are searching for 'Bill' then 'Bill', 'Billy', and 'Billie' will match. You need to use enhanced grep and do an anchored search. We are only interested in a match (status 0) or no match (non-zero) so we will use the -q (quiet) grep option.

USERFILE=myusers # file that contains the users"

typeset -i STAT=0
typeset USER=""
echo "Enter user name: \c"
read USER
grep -E -q -e "^${USER}\$" ${USERFILE}
STAT=${?}
if [[ ${STAT} -eq 0 ]]
then
echo "${USER} OK"
else
echo "${USER} Bad"
fi

[Khashru]

solved

[Muthukumar_5]

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