Compare file and string 1

[Yarka]

I have a file 'abc'like:

root#cat abc

no selected

root#

I need to compare the content of this test with the string 'no selected'. I do the following:

if [cat abc == "no selected"]; then
echo 1
else
echo 0
fi

but it doesn't work. How can I compare the file and that string?


Thank you very much!

 

[feherke]

Hi

[gray]# corrected[/gray]
[b]if[/b] [teal][[/teal] [green][i]"$( cat abc )"[/i][/green] [teal]==[/teal] [green][i]"no selected"[/i][/green] [teal]];[/teal] [b]then[/b]

[gray]# preferrable[/gray]
[b]if[/b] [teal][[/teal] [green][i]"$(< abc )"[/i][/green] [teal]==[/teal] [green][i]"no selected"[/i][/green] [teal]];[/teal] [b]then[/b]

[gray]# even more preferrable[/gray]
[b]if[/b] [teal][[[/teal] [green][i]"$(< abc )"[/i][/green] [teal]==[/teal] [green][i]"no selected"[/i][/green] [teal]]];[/teal] [b]then[/b]

Feherke.

 

[PHV]

Why not simply this ?

fgrep -q 'no selected' abc && echo 1 || echo 0

Hope This Helps, PH.
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