Did you copy-past that if-statement wrong? You're missing a closing ] -> Jake On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:09 PM, <canito at dalan.us> wrote: > In the process of writing a script which I would like to count the number > matched patterns (command line parameters). > > The issue I am running into using grep is that the string has a dash in > front, and it throws an error. > > E.g: > > ./script -test > > PATTERN=$1 > > egrep -ic $PATTERN --> egrep: invalid option -- 't' > > awk and egrep work using a file, but not on a variable: > > EXAMPLE=`awk '/test/ { nlines++ } {print nlines}' $PATTERN` > > awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `-test' for reading (No such > file or directory) > > I know using and if command works, so am I just over doing it? What am I > doing wrong? > > if [[ $PATTERN == "-test" ]; then > > Thanks in advanced! > > Saul David Alanis > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131206/7a5f3852/attachment.html>