I am trying to wite shell script and running into little trouble. I need to find a particular word in the file, then copy that file into a different folder. I can find the word in the file, but having problem on how to return status if find it or not. Maybe an if/else statement to see if word exit in the file. Any suggestion or recommendation is appricated. Thanks in advance.

There are a number of ways to search for a pattern in a file. grep searches for a pattern. You can use the exit status, $?: Assuming you are searching for pattern 'word' in 'myfile': #!/bin/ksh grep word myfile > /dev/null if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] then echo "found the word" else echo "Did NOT find the word" fi You can also look at a count of the pattern in a file: #!/bin/ksh count=$(grep -c word myfile) if [[ $count -gt 0 ]] then echo "found the word" else echo "Did NOT find the word" fi