if grep -Fxq "string" file.txt; then
echo "Match"
else
echo "No match"
fi
bash check if string does not exist in file
Just use grep with flags 'F' (fixed string), 'x' (exact match) and 'q'
(quiet output) in order to check if a word string is in a file
if ! grep -Fxq "string" file.txt; then #do some code...#; fi