I want to write a script to check out if the website is working fine by checking out some of it is contents. If the content exists in the result, it prints a message telling the website is working fine, otherwise, it will show an error:

#!/bin/bash
webserv="10.1.1.1"
Keyword="helloworld" # enter the keyword for test content
if (curl -s "$webserv" | grep "$keyword") # if the keyword is in the conent echo " the website is working fine"
else echo "Error"

Any suggestion how to do that?

2 Answers

You're mostly there. Just fix your syntax:

if curl -s "$webserv" | grep "$keyword"
then # if the keyword is in the conent echo " the website is working fine"
else echo "Error"
fi

Note the then and fi.

1

A tiny amend: when setting the variable and using it later, the case needs to match in the two places (ie 'keyword', not 'Keyword'). The full code that works for me:-

#!/bin/bash
webserv="10.1.1.1"
keyword="helloworld" # enter the keyword for test content
if curl -s "$webserv" | grep "$keyword"
then # if the keyword is in the content echo " the website is working fine"
else echo "Error"
fi

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