Sorry but looking at your code more closely, I dont see how it will work, sorry if I didnt put all the details. $awsLists isn't populated, so my goal is to populate the file, then check if ip is there, and not do anything, but if it is there write to the file 
@command=`aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=instance-state-na
+me,Values=running" | grep  PrivateDnsName | cut -d ":" -f2| cut -d '"
+' -f2 | sort -u `;

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Result 
ip-10-1-68-84.us-west-2.compute.internal
ip-10-1-7-183.us-west-2.compute.internal
ip-10-1-80-15.us-west-2.compute.internal
ip-10-1-80-162.us-west-2.compute.internal
ip-10-1-80-184.us-west-2.compute.internal
ip-10-1-80-187.us-west-2.compute.internal
ip-10-1-80-18.us-west-2.compute.internal
ip-10-1-80-57.us-west-2.compute.internal

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In reply to Re^2: String searching in file by cbtshare
in thread String searching in file by cbtshare

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