what is wrong with my unix script

Question

#!/bin/bash

while echo -n \"Player\'s name?\"
    read name
    [ $name != \'ZZZ\' ]
do
    searchresult=$(grep [$name] playername)
    if [ $searchresult = 0 ]
    the         


        

Answer 1

grep returns multiple words so shell interprets the if statement as having so many tokens. If you just want to check if there was a match, do this:

if grep "$name" playername &> /dev/null; then
    # ....