Bash Script using Grep to search for a pattern in a file

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Published on 2010-06-16T11:38:07Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 11:42 UTC
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I am writing a bash script to search for a pattern in a file using GREP. I am clueless for why it isnt working. This is the program

echo "Enter file name...";
read fname;
echo "Enter the search pattern";
read pattern
if [ -f $fname ]; then
    result=`grep -i '$pattern' $fname`
    echo $result;
fi

Or is there different approach to do this ?

Thanks

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