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On 2000年1月16日, you wrote: > I was thinking of just using the command id, but for either grep or id, > how do I make a variable equal to true or false depending on what grep or > another command returns? (in bash) > > -- > Michelle Weber > umweber@mcs.drexel.edu Just use an if statement. if (grep regexp foo 1>&2 > /dev/null) ; then var=true; else var=false; fi Don't know if bash has something like c's conditional statements: (grep regexp foo 1>&2>/dev/null) ? var=true : var=false; But you could check. ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug