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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting string checking Post 302211038 by fpmurphy on Wednesday 2nd of July 2008 01:24:19 PM
Old 07-02-2008
works with ksh and bash
Code:
if [[ ${str//[0-9]/} ]]; then
   print "ERROR: Not a numeric string"
fi

 

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pure-statsdecode(8)						     Pure-FTPd						       pure-statsdecode(8)

NAME
pure-statsdecode - Show human-readable dates from a "stats" logfile SYNTAX
pure-statsdecode filename pure-statsdecode - DESCRIPTION
This program decodes Pure-FTPd's "stats" log files and converts timestamps into human-readable dates. OPTIONS
- means to read the standard input. filename is a log file produced with pure-ftpd -O ftpstats:/path/to/logfile EXAMPLES
To run this program the standard way type: pure-statsdecode /var/log/pureftpd.log > /tmp/pureftpd.humanlog Alternativly you can run it as: cat /var/log/pureftpd.log | pure-statsdecode - | gzip --best > /tmp/pureftpd.humanlog.gz AUTHORS
Frank DENIS <j at pureftpd dot org> SEE ALSO
ftp(1), pure-ftpd(8) pure-ftpwho(8) pure-mrtginfo(8) pure-uploadscript(8) pure-statsdecode(8) pure-pw(8) pure-quotacheck(8) pure-authd(8) RFC 959, RFC 2228, RFC 2389 and RFC 2428. Pure-FTPd team 1.0.36 pure-statsdecode(8)
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