Simple greps

[Guest_imported]

I want to search a file for certain text and delete certain text from a file. I know you can do it with grep somehow but I'm not sure how. Can someone help?
example 1: search for string "dog" in file animals, if it's there, do A, else do B
example 2: delete string "dog" from file animals, if it's successful, do C, else do D
Thanks in advance!

 

[flawless69]

why not just do it with some perl? --Derek

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[Guest_imported]

how?? Xample?

 

[badco]

Here is a quick example:

[tt]
$db = 'basicdata.txt';
open(DAT, "$db&quot or die ("Can not open $db: $!\n"
@data = (<DAT>); #Read file into an array.
close(DAT);
open(DAT, &quot;>$db&quot or die (&quot;Can not open $db: $!\n&quot;
foreach $line (@data)
{
if ($line =~ /florida/)
{
$line =~ s/florida/jacksonville/;
}
elsif ($line =~ /atlanta/)
{
$line =~ s/atlanta/dallas/;
}
print DAT $line;
}
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