Check Word if exist on file or not

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello,
I want to check if some word exist or not on some file

By Example :
word is : nixcraft
file called : /root/shell.txt

and i want to check if nixcraft word exist on /root/shell.txt file with if statement or another tool

Any Ideas

2

grep -i 'nixcraft' /root/shell.txt

3

i want it in if statement syntax

if [....]; then

else

fi

thanks for your reply

4 
#!/bin/sh

file=/root/shell.txt
word="nixcraft"

if [ -f "$file" ]; then
        echo "File $file does not exist."
        exit 1
fi

cmd=$(grep -ci "$word" $file)

if [ "$cmd" != "0" ]; then
        echo "Word exists"
else
        echo "Word does not exist."
fi
5

Thank you very mush :slight_smile:
This is good idea

6

thanks, works perfectly and exactley what I was looking for. :b: